General Discussion

Governments. Local governments use BLS statistics to tell them when to trigger safeguards. And it's a lot more than just jobs data, BLS handles GDP growth, inflation, and a whole host of other metrics thousands of organizations rely on to know what to do and when to do it.

People don't even know it, but your local government probably has parts of their budget that are based on some of this data. Things written into your city charter that say things like, 'If nationwide unemployment his 6%, then X amount of funds will be released to fund school lunch programs, and X amount of funds will be released to go to training." There are triggers baked into state governments based on these numbers. It's how they know what to do to serve the citizens best.

The BLS has been a source of truth that companies and governments can use for generations. Without them, it will be chaos. For business, it adds risk. For governments, it makes it harder for them to react.

All because Trump doesn't like that people are finding out he's destroying our economy.