Any questions about whether the unemployment rate had been tampered with stem from an “enormous ignorance” of how his agency works, he said. If successful, it could result in a slight increase in the official June unemployment rate, some economists predict. Some Republicans in Congress have pointed to the falling unemployment rate as a sign that the economy doesn’t need billions of dollars more in federal aid. Earlier in this thread I said the unemployment rate was not reflecting all workers out of work because of the virus. But he said revising the March, April and May unemployment data was “off the table.”

Source: Washington Post June 10, 2020 16:52 UTC