The president’s nominee to run the highly visible Bureau of Labor
Statistics is likely to win Senate approval despite her ties to
decidedly left-wing political groups, her critics say.
Erica Groshen’s left-wing ties include her 1998 co-authorship of an article urging an end to small businesses’ exemption from expensive federal regulations, and her husband’s 2011 donation to the far-left Working Families Party.
“The integrity of the Bureau of Labor Statistics lies entirely in the belief that the data they present is not skewed by political opinion,” said Rick Manning, communications director at Americans for Limited Government.
But no Republican senator has put a hold on her nomination to be the agency’s next commissioner, despite the fact that monthly job announcements from the BLS are already attracting massive media attention in an election year marked by record unemployment.
Unless a GOP senator puts a hold on her nomination, she’s on track to be confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate before the end of the year.
Groshen co-authored her 1998 article, in which she argued against regulatory exemptions for small firms, for the union-backed Economic Policy Institute. That organization’s chief economist at the time, Jared Bernstein, later served as Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden.
“Large firms are doing well by employees, and themselves, by providing jobs with higher wages and benefits and greater job security,” read the article. “[P]ublic policy, rather than favoring small business by exempting it from many forms of regulation, should strive to be size neutral.”
Erica Groshen’s left-wing ties include her 1998 co-authorship of an article urging an end to small businesses’ exemption from expensive federal regulations, and her husband’s 2011 donation to the far-left Working Families Party.
“The integrity of the Bureau of Labor Statistics lies entirely in the belief that the data they present is not skewed by political opinion,” said Rick Manning, communications director at Americans for Limited Government.
But no Republican senator has put a hold on her nomination to be the agency’s next commissioner, despite the fact that monthly job announcements from the BLS are already attracting massive media attention in an election year marked by record unemployment.
Unless a GOP senator puts a hold on her nomination, she’s on track to be confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate before the end of the year.
Groshen co-authored her 1998 article, in which she argued against regulatory exemptions for small firms, for the union-backed Economic Policy Institute. That organization’s chief economist at the time, Jared Bernstein, later served as Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden.
“Large firms are doing well by employees, and themselves, by providing jobs with higher wages and benefits and greater job security,” read the article. “[P]ublic policy, rather than favoring small business by exempting it from many forms of regulation, should strive to be size neutral.”
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