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Concern about the reliability of federal information about work has been growing among California economists and policy expertsAfter President Donald Trump fired the commissioner at the Labor Statistics Bureau earlier this month, writes Calmatters’ LevagsS
Each month, the desk releases the number of unemployment and the consumer prices index. After seeing a sharp delay in hiring in the job report in July, Trump, without evidence, accused the commissioner of ordering the data. He then nominated the chief economist in the right brain Trust, who helped to prepare the 2025 project to run the agency.
Now economists are calling the alarm for the possible politicization of desk data, which is used to inform many things such as adjustments to the cost of life for social security, funding for benefits for food printing, tax tape and more. In addition to potential global consequences, government agencies across the country can be undermined.
Some examples specific to California include:
- The Employment Development Division Partners with the Federal Bureau for the release of monthly unemployment ratings and job estimates.
- The Ministry of Finance It relies on data on forecasting economic and revenue and reducing numbers related to the state budget, which includes the minimum wage and costs of living.
- Community California Colleges It depends on the data on jobs and the labor market information to help find and supply in various industries.
State agencies and other groups that do not directly use federal data are still using research that rely on this data to be informed and collecting an idea.
- Chris HoneThe Executive Director of the California Budget and Policy Center: “(this data) allows consumers, investors, people who think about retirement and businesses to make reasonably informed decisions. If you take out federal data, we remain with how people feel about things and the stock exchange and this is a big emptiness.”
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Other stories you need to know
NEWSOM assigns CHP to ‘Crime Suppression’
Against the backdrop of Trump’s deployment by troops of the National Guard in Washington, Colombia County, and his threats to send more federal troops to other cities led by Democrats New crime suppressance teams in six California regionsCalmatters’ reports Alexey KossefS
Compiled by the California Highway Patrol Officers, the teams will work with local crime staff in San Diego, the Internal Empire, Los Angeles, the Central Valley, Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay region. This move is the expansion of such intervention efforts that the state laid last year through OkllandBakersfield and San Bernardino.
The governor denied that the expansion of crime suppression teams was in response to Trump. Instead, he claims that the deployment of Trump from federal troops in cities is “authoritarian” and that the Newsom administration is “trying to respond to the people we serve.”
Newsom’s trump battle over the deployment of the President of the Federal Troops in LA in June It is still going on.
Efforts to protect tenants from heat up to the upstream battle
After burning a heat wave this week, legislators today will decide the fate of the bill that would Protect residents from dangerous heat indoorswrites Calmatters’ Alejandra Reyes-BellardeS
Currently held in the Committee of Budget Committee for the Assembly, the measure will make a state policy for residential units to “”Keep a safe maximum indoor temperatureS “Although a state report recommends a Maximum indoor temperature From 82 degrees, the bill itself does not impose a specific temperature.
Landlord groups oppose the measure, claiming that they do not have to pay for upgrading buildings because of a problem they have not caused. In the meantime, tenants’ defenders are concerned that without specifics the measure would not give enough of the landlords to keep the apartments safe and comfortable for tenants.
- Memphis PerezAnyone who lives in LA’s Lincoln Heights: “Temperatures here in LA are rising every year. It is fair only for (landlords) to perform their role and to provide an experienced experience in an apartment.”
And last: it’s time to kill some accounts ☠
With nearly 700 bills in the Senate and Assembly files, legislators in budget loan committees are busy today to escape in the legislative proposals for fashion fashion fire that have attached new expenses. The bills that are reducing today will still need the final approval of the legislature by September 12 to land on the governor’s desk.
California voices
CalMatters columnist Dan Walters: Legal dispute with the participation of El Dorado County for “Development Fees” returns to where it began nearly a decade ago and Its result is still uncertainS
Two views of Senate Bill 41 To regulate pharmacy managers:
Limiting the ability of pharmacy managers To negotiate lower prices with drug manufacturers can block patients from access to life-saving medicines, Christina Patel writesLeading pharmacist at CVS Specialty in San Francisco.
As independent pharmacies close in CaliforniaPowerful and largely unregulated pharmacy managers continue their shortness of breath on recipe prices and recovery rates, Sonia Frausto writesPharmacist and owner of a pharmacy of ten acres in Sacramento.
Other things that are worth your time:
Trump’s administration is investigating CA EPA over variety practices // Los Angeles Times
Meteorologists are now facing Trump’s Loyalty Test When applying for national jobs for meteorological services // San Francisco Chronicle
Ca Bill will help keep it Sensitive street suppliers from ICE // Los Angeles Public Press
Ca AG announcement Efforts to destroy the theft of copper in the north of Ca // Scout
How beautiful a summer day On Lake Taho suddenly turned deadly // The New York Times
138 arrested protesters from the Gaza War After storming SF office of Senator Padila // San Francisco Chronicle
Freen residents detained outward The Court of Justice with an increase in ice inspection, defenders say // Fresh bee
Family in shock after Ice moves la teen out of state without their knowledge // Guardian
The Federal Big Jury blames Two employees of medical medical staff on an ICE RAID // Los Angeles Times
Study of the Tijuana River sewer crisis Finds a connection between water pollution and toxic gas // The Union of San Diego-Tribun
