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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 ...
(CNN) — The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in charge of producing it. But economists haven’t forgotten about ...
Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.
But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...
We’ve all been there, in the middle of an objectively bad outcome, and had the same knee-jerk reaction: Blame someone else!
President Donald Trump says the U.S. economy is going great under his stewardship. The latest jobs numbers suggest a slowdown ...
President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions ...
One of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers strongly suggested Wednesday that an economic report was “manipulated politically” to help Barack Obama win reelection in 2012. Kevin Hassett, ...
In case you had any doubt that it’s Donald “Economy Butcher” Trump who’s really trying to rig the economic numbers.
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
In firing the head of the agency that produces monthly jobs figures, President Donald Trump alleged that the recent ...
Although the U.S. saw disappointing results for employment in June, the healthcare sector saw reasonable gains that could potentially point to continued growth. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released ...