Trump’s Candidate to Monitor Employment and Inflation Data Faces a Rain of Criticism

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The director of the agency that produces the country’s employment and inflation data is typically a mild-mannered technocrat, often with extensive experience in statistical agencies, and with little public profile. But, as with so many things in President Donald Trump’s second administration, this time is different. Trump has selected EJ Antoni, chief economist of the conservative Heritage Foundation, as the next commissioner of the Labour Depar…