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The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
The numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had ...
President Donald Trump says the U.S. economy is going great under his stewardship. The latest jobs numbers suggest a slowdown ...
Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.
Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.
The BLS jobs survey is widely considered by economists to be robust. It samples more than 100,000 businesses and government ...
House Democrats asked for a congressional hearing on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer.
By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that ...
We’ve all been there, in the middle of an objectively bad outcome, and had the same knee-jerk reaction: Blame someone else!