A soon-to-be released report from the conservative organisation, Americans for Limited Government (ALG), has attacked President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) because she sent her children to a politically left-wing Jewish summer camp with alleged Communist roots.
An experienced labour economist who has spent most of her career working for the Federal Reserve, Dr Erica Groshen, 58, was nominated to be the BLS commissioner in February.
After receiving a PhD in economics at Harvard in 1986, Dr Groshen worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and became its economic adviser in 1991. In 1994, she moved to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she has held a series of positions, including head of international research, and assistant vice president.
The ALG, unhappy about Dr Groshen’s nomination, has attacked her by complaining that she sent her children to Camp Kinderland, whose website describes it as “a camp founded in 1923 by Jewish activists as a retreat for their children.”
