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In an email that the BLS sent to economists, viewed by The Associated Press, the agency said that it “temporarily reduced the number of outlets and quotes it attempted to collect due to a staffing shortage” in April. The reduced data collection “will be kept in place until the hiring freeze is lifted.”The cutbacks have intensified worries among economists that government spending cuts could degrade the federal government’s ability to compile key economic data on employment, prices, and the broader economy. The BLS also
that it will no longer collect wholesale prices in about 350 categories for its Producer Price Index, a measure of price changes before they reach the consumer.The inflation data plays a huge role in the U.S. economy. It is used to calculate the annual cost of living adjustments for tens of millions of Social Security recipients and it helps determine the interest rate paid in about $2 trillion of inflation-adjusted Treasury bonds. Many private-sector wages are also influenced by the CPI.The reduced data collection is also occurring at a time of heightened uncertainty about the economy and the impact of Trump’s sweeping
on hiring, growth and inflation. Officials at the Federal Reserve, for example, have repeatedly cited the cloudy outlook as a key reason they are no longer cutting their short-term interest rate, after reducing it three times late last year.“The PPI is cutting hundreds of indexes from production, and the CPI is now being constructed with less data,” Omair Sharif, chief economist at the consulting firm Inflation Insights, said in an email. “That alone is worrying given that we’re heading into the teeth of the tariff impact on prices.”
The BLS said that the cutbacks “have minimal impact” on the overall inflation data, but “they may increase the volatility” of the reported prices of specific items.
President Donald Trump froze federal hiring on his“It’s not going to happen overnight,” the judge said. “The court is going to move very carefully.”
on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.In 1976, the SCLC and Bernard Lee, who was King’s executive assistant at the organization, filed a lawsuit to challenge the legality of the FBI’s surveillance. The 1977 court order required the FBI to compile records of its telephone wiretapping operations, between 1963 and 1968, at King’s home and at the SCLC offices in Atlanta and New York.
Bernice King, the civil rights leader’s youngest daughter, said inthat she hopes the files are permanently sealed or destroyed.