It's Sunday. I am NOT at work.

2 additional insights about what's going on the the CPS:

(1) The threat to the CPS is the INTERACTION of declining response and flat (nominal) funding. When people are less willing to respond, it takes more time and effort per response--and staff time costs money.
Reposted from Ben Zipperer
Funding for the Bureau of Labor Statistics fell by 20% since 2010 and (surprise!) so did the response rate of one of the most important labor market surveys in the US

great report by Kyle Ross & Sara Estep sounding alarms to reverse a shrinking BLS budget

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

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