By Levi Sumagaysay | CalMatters

Unemployment numbers and the consumer price index come out every month like clockwork, giving individuals, businesses and local and state government agencies across the nation critical information.

Economists and others fear wide-ranging ramifications for California if the reliability of that information is uncertain, calling the data fundamental for making an array of policy and funding decisions.

President Donald Trump recently fired Erika McEntarfer , the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, because he didn’t like that the July jobs report showed a drastic slowdown in hiring, and the updated numbers for May and June, after the common process of a revision. He accused her , without evidence, of rigging the data.

Trump has nominated E.J. Antoni

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