General Discussion

specifically the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program which measures the monthly jobs. We worked directly with BLS staff. And as you say, I can vouch for the continued validity of the data coming out of the CES program. I'm not going to go into the detailed explanation again, but suffice to say It will be obvious if/when the data ceases to be legit. Manipulating that data would be extremely difficult. It is far more likely that they simply stop publishing the monthly data.

Thank you for standing up for BLS. And BTW, the data released on Friday will include benchmark revisions for the past 2 years. Based on preliminary benchmark estimates released in September, March 1995 jobs estimate could be revised downward by close to a million. Subsequent months will be reduced as well. I expect the numbers will be very bad news for Trump.