To: President Donald Trump and The United States Senate
True Employment Data
I request that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics be required to announce the change in the number of employees on nonfarm payrolls both as the actual number and the seasonally adjusted number every month.
Why is this important?
I want the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Secretary of Labor, and the President to insist on reporting the true growth in the labor force. For May, the figure we read was 69,000 jobs created. That was the seasonally adjusted figure. The true number was 789,000, not seasonally adjusted. Can you imagine what a boost to President obama's reelection prospects the true number would have been?