DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Heritage Foundation chief economist EJ Antoni is the perfect choice to clean up the mess at the Bureau of Labor Statistics—the guardian of America’s labor and inflation metrics. Policymakers, investors, journalists, and informed Americans rely on this data to cut through the noise and accurately gauge the economy.

Unfortunately, the BLS’ credibility has eroded in recent years due to wildly off-base economic estimates. Observe its announcement last August that it had overstated Biden administration job creation by nearly 1 million positions, resulting in President Joe Biden receiving positive jobs number headlines month after month that he didn’t deserve.

This mistake also led the Federal Reserve to break from long-standing tradition and cut interest rates by

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