@PerryM
I have been thinking the same thing.
"If his hand-picked replacement says only 29K #jobs were created, imagine how bad the numbers REALLY are!"
But the head of the #BLS doesn't actually decide the number. And if the totals they were provided didn't match what they report, an army of #WhistleBlowers would tell us in a heartbeat. So I think we can trust #job numbers this bad to be accurate if not at least close.