By John Crudele
Meet Stefani Butler.
She has been my inside source at the Census Bureau. Butler is the whistleblower who approached me more than three years ago about wrongdoing that was occurring on government surveys, including the one that forms the basis for the monthly unemployment report.
Butler says she came to me after the Census Bureau wouldn’t do anything to stop data falsification. She chose me because I’d already written about odd stuff going during the 2010 decennial census.
Together, Butler and I have gotten the House Oversight Committee to recommend a lot of changes and reforms in Census Bureau procedures. And we think we’ve made it harder for people at the bureau to cheat. And, I have to modestly say, we’ve probably made economic, crime and health surveys more reliable.........
And some of the main culprits still work at the Census Bureau. One has even been promoted and oversees more people and more surveys. This is one swamp that President Trump, who has questioned US economic data, needs to wade into.
And I’m going to do my best to make sure he does.......To Read More......
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