{"id":346617,"date":"2025-08-09T13:06:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/what-other-bls-commissioners-shouldve-been-fired-but-werent-using-the-trump-criterion\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:06:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:06:34","slug":"what-other-bls-commissioners-shouldve-been-fired-but-werent-using-the-trump-criterion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/what-other-bls-commissioners-shouldve-been-fired-but-werent-using-the-trump-criterion\/","title":{"rendered":"What Other BLS Commissioners Should\u2019ve Been Fired (But Weren\u2019t) Using the Trump Criterion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-57540\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header -->&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Here\u2019re other prior 2 month cumulative revisions, normalized by employment (after all, the country has been growing for the past 100 years):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GS_Jul25exhibit_1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57541\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GS_Jul25exhibit_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GS_Jul25exhibit_1.png 453w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GS_Jul25exhibit_1-300x270.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source:<\/strong> Abecasis, Walker, \u201cUS Daily: Q&amp;A on the Revisions in the July Employment Report,\u201d Goldman Sachs, August 2, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Using the Trump criterion, the following BLS Commissioners should\u2019a been fired.<\/p>\n<p>I see that Trump did not fire Bill Beach, but did fire Erika McEntarfer. For a complete list of Sentate-confirmed BLS Commissioners, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/bls\/history\/commissioners\/\">here<\/a> (there were 4 BLS Commissioners that did not have a larger (by percentage) revision).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/08\/what-other-bls-commissioners-shouldve-been-fired-but-werent-using-the-trump-criterion\" title=\"9:16 am\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-08-09T09:16:11-07:00\">August 9, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->&#13;\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/08\/what-other-bls-commissioners-shouldve-been-fired-but-werent-using-the-trump-criterion\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; Here\u2019re other prior 2 month cumulative revisions, normalized by employment (after all, the country has been growing for the past 100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}