The jobs report data is released by a private consulting firm.

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Congress created the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1884, when President Chester Arthur signed the Bureau of Labor Act (23 Stat. 60). Today BLS employs about 2,400 career statisticians and economists. It uses two massive monthly surveys: the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of 121,000 businesses, and the Current Population Survey (CPS) of 60,000 households conducted by the Census Bureau. This government structure matters because Trump can pressure or fire political appointees — something he can't do to private data firms. That's exactly why he fired Commissioner Erika McEntarfer: federal employees answer to the president in ways that private economists don't.

The jobs report data is released by a private consulting firm.

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