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Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...
Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...
The U.S. economy added 73,000 jobs in July, which is fewer than expected, as the unemployment rate increased to 4.2%.
President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...
The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in ...
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).
Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...
Trump responded by doing what Trump does: goes ballistic, acts impulsively, attacks the messenger, and spews falsehoods.
President Trump, unhappy with the latest economic data, fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's bad news.