House panel to probe unemployment data

Published November 19, 2013 11:48pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel plans to investigate allegations in a published report that workers in the Census Bureau fabricated data used to prepare monthly unemployment reports.

The probe comes in response to a report Monday in the New York Post that says census data was manipulated in advance of the 2012 presidential race.

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