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“This is great for employers — they have a nonfunctioning NLRB,” said Cathy Creighton, an NLRB attorney during the Clinton administration and the director of the Buffalo Co-Lab.

“If what you’re trying to look at is some measure of consumer confidence, then you don’t want the number that you’re looking at to be driven by whether or not the harvest for avocados was good,” said Erica Groshen, economic adviser at ILR.

Cathy Creighton, director of the Buffalo Co-Lab, noted that federal workers live all over the country—meaning that their economic interests affect communities in both red and blue states.

“I see some very big threats. I see threats associated with funding. I see threats associated with personnel. I see threats in the reduction of independence and objectivity,” said Erica Groshen, who led BLS during the Obama administration.

Housing inflation is "certainly more sluggish," Erica Groshen says.

Lee Adler says that the problem with polls is that they are data points. What people do could be different. And we’re in a different world today compared to three years ago when King Soopers workers walked out for nine days.