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President Donald Trump continues to claim without evidence that the jobs report was "totally rigged." ...
Abrams warned that Trump’s firing of BLS commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer is a “much bigger deal” than imagined.
An official who ran the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics during President Donald Trump’s first term is criticizing Trump ...
President Donald Trump has a pattern of dismissing or altering data that reflects poorly on him. During his first term, the ...
Faced with a souring economy, the president could change course, but he prefers to fire statisticians and to lie brazenly to ...
President Donald Trump's decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been met with criticism from Indiana economist Michael Hicks, who warns that the move could lead to higher ...
"Firing the labor statistician delivering the data is akin to breaking the thermometer because of a heat wave," John Rash writes.
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...
President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...
President Trump's firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief following a lackluster jobs report has sparked debate over how the agency gets its data. Ben Casselman, the chief economics ...
Labor economist Aaron Sojourner said President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner ...