Chabeli Carrazana

Economy and Child Care Reporter

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Reliably on the first Friday of every month for the past 50 years, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released data on how women of color are faring in the economy. It’s the only timely source of this demographic-level data.

Without it, economists and policymakers would have no way of knowing how economic policy is affecting marginalized groups of workers in real time. They’d be flying blind on how to help them.

But that’s just what President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the bureau is suggesting doing.

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On August 1, Trump fired the head of the bureau, Erika McEntarfer, after BLS published one of the largest revisions to its d

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