[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Bill Beach - What's Broken About the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Official labor statistics are the backbone of economic policymaking, and they were mostly designed in the 1950s. The man who ran BLS through the pandemic has a lot to say about what needs to change.

Topics covered:

• Why BLS was built for a world of probability sampling that no longer works
• How the design of a survey encodes a worldview
• How Indigenous Americans had a 37% unemployment rate at the peak of the pandemic
• What happened when the BLS commissioner was fired
• How private data and official statistics compliment each other
• Why the longitudinal survey of the Covid generation just got defunded

About Bill Beach: Bill Beach served as the 15th Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, overseeing the agency through the Covid pandemic under two administrations. He now leads the Fiscal Lab at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on labor market data, economic measurement, and federal statistical policy.

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