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From Dean Baker When a football team keeps losing, the cry usually goes out for a new coach, or at least a new quarterback. Alternatively, there is the Trump route: Get a new scorekeeper. That is apparently the story, with Trump reportedly looking to overhaul the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the statistical agency thattells us how many jobs we create each month. It also tells us the unemployment rate and the inflation rate.

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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.

His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)

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