Commissioner of labor statistics fired after weaker-than-expected jobs figures
44 belter 13 8/1/2025, 7:05:49 PM cnbc.com ↗
Comments (13)
inamberclad · 5h ago
Firing your subordinates because you don't like the number they report to you is how you obliterate the functioning machinery of government.
legobmw99 · 5h ago
Hard to imagine that isn’t part of the goal at this point
chung8123 · 1h ago
The numbers were super wrong for June and July. It could appear that they were fired for misleading numbers from the previous months.
snowwrestler · 1h ago
Revisions are common.
kccoder · 4h ago
Which is their goal
bwb · 4h ago
What a depress timeline. I didn’t have the rebirth of Soviet style rule on my bingo card this year.
mongol · 5h ago
Same mindset as Stalin. Granted, not as severe outcome, but the neurons seem to work in similar patterns
Ancalagon · 3h ago
Not as severe yet.
mahkeiro · 4h ago
They did the same with inflation numbers…
Braxton1980 · 4h ago
How do you know?
mahkeiro · 1h ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-economic-data-quality-wo...
antithesizer · 1h ago
HN demonstrating they are no better, not even more intellectually honest, than MAGA itt. If all you know about this is the headline then you know less than nothing.
ChrisArchitect · 4h ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760734