America's economic data are becoming murkier:

美国的经济数据变得更加模糊:由于资金紧张,劳工统计局正在偷工减料

Jun 29th 2025 | ATLANTA

2025年6月29日 | 亚特兰大

EVERY DAY HUNDREDS of Americans take to the streets to collect prices for the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS), the government's economic-data agency. Enumerators in 75 urban areas track fluctuations in the costs of a "market basket" of goods and services, from blood tests at doctors' offices to rental fees for two-bedroom apartments and cinema tickets. The numbers they gather feed into the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a statistical tool used to calculate inflation.

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