{"id":60060,"date":"2025-08-05T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/60060\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:43:08","slug":"the-indicator-from-planet-money-npr-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/60060\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/squarecrop4-2-_sq-91812749a7b71c06586010b8f0f5ddb5370d640f.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2025\/08\/04\/squarecrop4-2-_sq-91812749a7b71c06586010b8f0f5ddb5370d640f.jpg?s={width}&amp;c={quality}&amp;f={format}\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Anna Moneymaker \/ Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>            <img data-original=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2025\/08\/04\/squarecrop4-2-_sq-91812749a7b71c06586010b8f0f5ddb5370d640f.jpg?s=2600&amp;c=100&amp;f=jpeg\" alt=\"Anna Moneymaker \/ Getty Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Since his return to office, President Trump has waged something of a pressure campaign on economic data and the people in charge of delivering it. His firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner following a weak jobs report now has some wondering: can we still trust the official numbers? Today on the show, we&#8217;re resharing our conversation with former BLS commissioner, Erica Groshen on her current fears for the integrity of government data. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/03\/07\/1236538089\/doge-gdp-bls-department-of-labor-jobs-reporthttps:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/03\/07\/1236538089\/doge-gdp-bls-department-of-labor-jobs-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">original version of this story<\/a> aired March 7, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Related: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/04\/1256727558\/trump-fires-bls-director-jobs-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What really goes on at the Bureau of Labor Statistics?<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/04\/1256727558\/trump-fires-bls-director-jobs-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> (Update)<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-indicator-from-planet-money\/id1320118593?i=1000720277395\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/057UFl8X91tpCDfT9oGdzK?si=5dbfc7305e5a4a49\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>) <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/01\/1256575142\/trust-economics-trump-bls-bureau-labor-statistics-jobs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Would you trust an economist with your economy?<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/planet-money\/id290783428?i=1000720290749\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7J7g5dLgJbtUic6f4yCb9Z?si=526eb4a533254c9e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plus.npr.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Fact-checking by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/g-s1-26724\/sierra-juarez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sierra Juarez<\/a>. 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Find us: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@planetmoney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/planetmoney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/planetmoney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/newsletter\/money\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newsletter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images Since his return to office, President Trump has waged something of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-60060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}