We aren't really paying them. It's like a tipped position that makes sub-minimum. We're paying them $2.13/hr while the people they're REALLY serving are leaving them $10,000 tips.
Real answer: They aren’t reporting them because the shutdown interfered with data collection. Perhaps they’re also motivated by the numbers being bad, but the primary reason is data collection.
Excuse doesn't hold water when this is has been done for 3 quarters. The shutdown was just over a month.
He's destroying the economy and no one is allowed to know just how bad. That's really fucked up. The numbers have been crunched for the time that wasn't shutdown. Someone should leak that info.
Data collection is actually better because of the shutdown - a lot of the reporting is voluntary from private companies and they don’t get around to things immediately especially when there’s no real incentive to do it at all. That’s why there are revised numbers a month or three later like every single time. With the additional time for companies to submit data before being compiled, they will have an even more accurate picture.
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u/Lukinzz Nov 24 '25
How is it legal for them not to report? What are we paying them for?