In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to
September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from
Wall Street to Washington.
The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September —
might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable
source, were manipulated.
And the Census Bureau, which does the unemployment survey, knew it.
Just two years before the presidential election, the Census Bureau
had caught an employee fabricating data that went into the unemployment
report, which is one of the most closely watched measures of the
economy.
And a knowledgeable source says the deception went beyond that one
employee — that it escalated at the time President Obama was seeking
reelection in 2012 and continues today.
“He’s not the only one,” said the source, who asked to remain
anonymous for now but is willing to talk with the Labor Department and
Congress if asked.
The Census employee caught faking the results is Julius Buckmon,
according to confidential Census documents obtained by The Post. Buckmon
told me in an interview this past weekend that he was told to make up
information by higher-ups at Census.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
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