# Erica Groshen
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Uuendatud:
Erica Lynn Groshen (born August 6, 1954) is the former Commissioner of Labor Statistics and head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the independent, principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad fields of labor economics and statistics, inflation, and productivity. BLS is part of the U.S. Department of Labor.
== Education ==
Groshen received a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
What's actually in US jobs data?
Data about the US labor market has been all over the headlines of late -- but what's actually in these numbers? Beyond the recent political upheaval surrounding the August 1, 2025, jobs report, the process of translating complex and nuanced things like labor market activity into numbers, and then m…
How Reliable is Economic Data?
Are concerns about the quality and reliability of economic data — as well as its vulnerabilities to political influences — warranted? Former BLS Commissioner Erica Groshen, who served from 2013 to 2017, Laffer Associates’ Arthur Laffer, Harvard Business School’s Alberto Cavallo, and Goldman Sachs’ …
A Conversation with Former BLS Commissioners William Beach and Erica Groshen
Free markets are a core principle of libertarianism, and data are a central element to furthering economic freedom.
Accurate data are essential to researchers of all philosophies—liberal, conservative, and libertarian—and all researchers must rely on objective facts as a baseline to inform policy a…
Reopening government could avert recession, but risks remain, economists say
The U.S. Capitol, November 11, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Win Mcnamee/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — The longest government shutdown in U.S. history could end as soon as Wednesday, ultimately putting hundreds of thousands of federal employees back to work, funding food stamps and smo…
The Fruits of Our Labor Statistics
Zeke speaks with Dr. Erica Groshen, the former Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about data integrity, independence within the government, and how statistics can help us understand and make decisions about our world. Get full access to Not Local at notlocal.substack.com/subscribe
Using Wage Records to Help Workers | OAS Episode 262
Our focus on this podcast is enhanced wage records and the role they can play in helping states better understand their workforce, evaluate job training programs and show the return on investment for various educational programs.
Collecting enhanced employment data involves asking employers for a…
The Cost of Politicizing Economic Statistics
President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in August 2025, claiming without evidence that the agency's data were "rigged." One consequence of the firing was an erosion of trust in data that businesses, investors, and policymakers depend on. A recent paper (https://www.nber.org…
Former BLS Commissioner Discusses Trust In The Financial System
The financial system depends on robust and credible economic data. But some observers say the credibility of that data took a blow when President Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer. Without evidence, Trump said July job numbers from the BLS were rigged against him.…
What Is AI Doing to Jobs? The Data We Need Isn't Being Collected-Former BLS Commissioner Erica Groshen
AI is already prompting dramatic predictions about jobs and big policy proposals in response. But we still know remarkably little about what AI is actually doing to the economy. The reason isn’t that the data has been lost or hidden. It’s that much of the data we would need isn’t being collected.Dr…
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