Obama Picks Fed Economist to Head BLS

President Obama Feb. 16 announced his intent to nominate Erica L. Groshen as commissioner of the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Groshen, an economist, is a vice president in the Research and Statistics Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she has worked since 1994. If confirmed by the Senate, Groshen would fill a vacancy created when previous BLS Commissioner Keith Hall’s term expired Jan. 12 (19 DLR A-12, 1/30/12).

Groshen also is a member of BLS’s Data Users’ Advisory Committee and serves on the editorial board of Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy ...