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    House panel probes Labor Department’s leak of revised jobs data to Wall Street firms

    September 26, 2024 // The House Committee on Education and Workforce, which is chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), sent a letter early Wednesday morning to the acting secretary of the Labor Department, Julie Su, asking for more information on the botched release of the revised data. “At best, BLS’s botched release of the job numbers caused significant uncertainty and confusion and undermined confidence in the data,” the committee’s letter to Su read.

    Report Rips Biden–Harris Labor Secretary Julie Su

    September 23, 2024 // One individual used the name “Mr. Poopy Pants” on his official application and “received an approved claim.” Rapper Nuke Bizzle filed “92 fraudulent applications” and posted a video about the ease of ripping off California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) that gets a lot of attention in the “Widespread Fraud” report. “EDD, under leadership of Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) secretary Julie Su, made the decision early in the pandemic to ‘pay and chase’ after she was informed that keeping integrity checks in place would lead to a backlog in processing claims largely due to EDDs outdated IT,” the report says