> If they don't care one way or another who they help or hurt Genuine question: do you assume that partisan issues are the only possible ones to determine who they privilege or transfer from or in what direction they might bias figures or scientific pronouncements? The government is more than just red squares and blue squares.

Not all, no. But in general, yes, I do. What other possible reason could there be in this case? They look like morons to everyone, and it just got the top lady fired. Nah, the real answer is you cannot anymore use old survey methods to measure the employment and jobs of 160 million workers, in a $27 trillion economy without full mass intervention and forced responses.