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pgwhalentoday at 2:58 PM1 replyview on HN

I think you say “as good as they can get with [the] hard manual work that goes into compiling them” as a way to respect the challenge of the BLS and say they’re doing the best with their resources, but it’s worth pointing out they could be better with more resources.


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jmalickitoday at 3:02 PM

DOGE hurt them pretty hard: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics posted a notice on Wednesday stating that it stopped collecting data in three not-so-small cities (Lincoln, Nebraska; Buffalo, New York; and Provo, Utah) and increased “imputations” for certain items"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/economy/cpi-data-bls-reductio...