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Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer is out because President Donald Trump didn't like the July jobs report.
In normal times, the first Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report.
The full story is more complicated. Trump is broadly right on the question of how much leverage the need for foreign access ...
In the 21st century, U.S. economic data has become embedded in the life of the nation. It determines increases in Social Security benefits for retirees, influences the purchases of auto and home ...
President Trump, unhappy with the latest economic data, fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's bad news.
President Trump is right to raise doubts about the motivations of the government officials tasked with collecting and ...
Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...
Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...
Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...
President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...
President Donald Trump has successfully taken over the United States and is now moving to control every aspect of residents’ ...
CNN's Maggie Haberman said she believes President Donald Trump has managed to convince himself that the underwhelming jobs numbers released last week were "faked," despite zero evidence supporting the ...