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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 ...
But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...
President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...
Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...
On Friday, after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing weak July hiring numbers and significant downward ...
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown likely factored into the slowdown in employment gains in the past few months ...