Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall is demanding testimony from the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over the monster jobs report revision it issued in August.
Last month, the BLS announced that there were actually 818,000 fewer jobs added to the economy during the 12 months ending in March than what it initially reported, marking the largest downward revision of its kind since 2009.
In other words, job growth was about 28% less than what was initially reported.
Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall took aim at the eye-popping jobs report revision last month. AP
“This drastic downward revision of jobs is unacceptable and the BLS must answer for this error,” Marshall wrote in a Thursday letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP).
The Republican, who sits on the Senate HELP Committee, demanded that Sanders pursue testimony from Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the BLS.
“The Committee must have the opportunity to question Commissioner McEntarfer directly as to why such a key indicator of the job market has been inaccurately reported over the past year, in addition to the actions she and the Bureau are pursuing