(Arizona Gov.) Ducey ends state's monthly analysis of jobless situation
Source: Arizona Daily Star
PHOENIX Following some less-than-spectacular jobless reports, the Ducey administration is scrapping at least temporarily and perhaps for good the monthly media briefings on the states unemployment situation.
Kevin Donnellan, director of the Department of Administration, said his agency will continue to produce and distribute monthly reports. The state gets federal funds to gather the data, which are public records.
... Donnellan not only is ending the monthly briefings. He also said Aruna Murthy, the agencys director of economic analysis, who has conducted them for more than five years, has been fired.
... The move comes on the heels of Murthy pointing out some questions not only about the pure unemployment numbers but noting that many of the jobs actually being created in Arizona are in low-wage sectors of the economy.
Read more: http://tucson.com/news/state-and-regional/ducey-ends-state-s-monthly-analysis-of-jobless-situation/article_732e1fec-2dfd-5567-8b30-b20be1fd9975.html
forest444
(5,902 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 16, 2015, 02:00 PM - Edit history (1)
Some of us remember what happened the last time an obtuse Republican tried hiding data that warned of trouble ahead; the trouble happened anyway. http://www.financialsensebeta.com/fsu/editorials/straka/2005/1112.html
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I've been using "Duncey".
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)malthaussen
(17,242 posts)Don't like the stats? Ignore them!
Does this mean the people who were responsible for the stats collection are now out of a job?
-- Mal
atreides1
(16,126 posts)Arizona has to keep gathering the stats, or they lose Federal money.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)If you don't talk about it then it isn't real?
What a moron.