Americans Distrust Government Data Amid BLS Job Revision Scandals
Conducted August 13-14 among 1,000 registered voters, the survey shows 46% view BLS data as unreliable, while just 13% find it very reliable. Two-thirds (68%) believe politics biases government information.
A Napolitan News poll reveals 59% of Americans trust private sector data over government figures, with only 20% favoring federal sources, following President Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner for inflating Biden-era job numbers.
Conducted August 13-14 among 1,000 registered voters, the survey shows 46% view BLS data as unreliable, while just 13% find it very reliable. Two-thirds (68%) believe politics biases government information.
This distrust stems from repeated BLS overestimations under Biden. Revisions slashed 818,000 jobs from the year ending March 2024, a 27% drop from initial job growth reports. Over Biden's final two years, BLS overestimated by 1.5 million jobs. In 2024 alone, revisions cut 589,000 jobs. Net downward adjustments totaled 906,000 across multiple years. A 12-month overestimate reached 1.2 million. Recent May-June revisions erased 258,000 jobs.
President Trump cited these manipulations, which exaggerated Biden growth and understated his own, as reason for the dismissal, highlighting deep-state efforts to mislead the public.
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