Trump’slatestpicktoleadtheBLSfaceschallengingjobahead

The president nominated career labor statistician Brett Matsumoto to lead the agency late last month.

“You don’t want job statistics to be political football. It shouldn’t be that,” said Rick Hermanns, chairman and CEO of staffing firm HireQuest. “People make real decisions that lead to real consequences for real people. And you don’t want that made off of bad information.”

Hermanns expressed frustrations with jobs data revisions—including a downward revision showing the economy added 910,000 fewer jobs than originally reported between April 2024 and March 2025—noting how, for example, a company opening a new plant might consider data about labor shortages or high unemployment rates when deciding on a location. “All those decisions matter, and that’s why you want to base it off of good data,” he said.

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