Were the BLS numbers manipulated for political purposes?

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If the numbers were purposely manipulated why wasn't the initial release at the lower levels?

Stop asking logical questions. It upsets the loons.

 

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"Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes." – DJT​

Who benefited politically from the announcement eleven weeks before Election Day of 68,000 fewer jobs per month for the previous year?




Who benefited politically from the announcement of only 12,000 jobs added the previous month just four days before Election Day?




The final yearly revision for March 2024 was -598,000 compared to the -818,000 preliminary number announced prior to the Election. Why not use a more favorable number before the election and revise it to be less favorable afterwards if politics were determining the numbers?

The preliminary jobs number for October 2024 was +12,000 compared to the revised number of +44,000. Why not announce a significantly higher number days before the election and revise it lower afterwards if the intent was manipulate the number for political purposes?


ADP (blue) vs BLS (red)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1L3m7


How was the ADP data manipulated to make the results over time align with the BLS numbers?
Shouldn't we be seeing a much larger overall deviation if the BLS data was being falsified?

Now, I remember people claiming Clinton's, Bush's, and Obama's jobs/unemployment/inflation data were fake, manipulated, etc, but the interesting thing is that, with one exception in 2012, I've never heard anyone claim how they think the data were manipulated.

And in the 2012 case of a fired Census worker who claimed he had been ordered to fake collection data for the unemployment stats, the Inspector General report that yes he did fake some entries, but he had not been ordered to, and there was no effect on the final data.