Source: United States & Canada – South China Morning PostWho before this month had ever heard of Erika McEntarfer, the career statistician who toiled quietly and uncontroversially at the heart of the US data-gathering machine, for 20 years at the Census Bureau and more recently as head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics?
Who except US President Donald Trump could have sought to create a firestorm out of dull labour statistics, accusing McEntarfer of rigging jobs numbers to contradict his narrative of a robustly recovering economy, and making an…Read More