White House Doubles Down on Jobs Data Criticism

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2025-09-09

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A.M. Edition for Sept. 9. White House advisers are preparing a report laying out alleged shortcomings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs data. Plus, we exclusively report on how OpenAI’s plan to become a for-profit company faces increasing hurdles. And, WSJ’s Max Colchester explains why the so-called moron premium on UK bonds could be a canary in the coalmine for debt-laden countries around the world. Caitlin McCabe hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • The White House doubles down on its criticism of U.S. jobs data.

  • Plus, OpenAI's plan to become a for-profit company faces more hurdles.

  • and how the UK's financial troubles could offer a warning for countries around the globe.

  • So investors now have the sort of base case of what happens when governments mismanage their affairs in the West,

  • so they apply this so-called moron premium to the UK debt.

  • It's Tuesday, September 9th.

  • I'm Caitlin McCabe for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,

  • the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

  • We begin today with a journal exclusive.

  • White House advisors are preparing a report laying out alleged shortcomings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly jobs data.

  • The report takes a critical look at the BLS and includes a historical overview of the agency's jobs data revisions.

  • It comes just five weeks after President Trump fired the chief of the agency following an unusually large downward revision to the number of new jobs in the economy in May and June.

  • On the WSJ's Take on the Week podcast,

  • chief economist at the conference board Dana M. Peterson said revisions are the compromise

  • for getting quick data.