This Week’s Top Hits

Erica Groshen joins EconoFact Chats to discuss the history and the role of the BLS, the importance of good data for decision-making by government, businesses, and families, and her concerns about political interference degrading the integrity of government statistics.

Lee Adler discusses the Trump administration cancelling the first bargaining session with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's worker's union.

Art Wheaton, senior extension associate at the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, says, “Everything is pretty good now, I don't think the full impact of those tariffs has hit yet.”

Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor at ILR, discusses the reliability of data supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director for The Worker Institute, says “Extreme heat waves have increased in the last 10 years, so you’re seeing more of a crisis on that, so I hope the administration allows for some minimum guidance.”

No car sold in the U.S. is entirely made in America using only parts made in America. "How could we re-source 30,000 parts?" Art Wheaton asked rhetorically. "It couldn't be done in 10 years."