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In normal times, the first Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report.
President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...
President Donald Trump continues to claim without evidence that the jobs report was "totally rigged." ...
Elon Musk’s DOGE may have completed much of its work in the federal bureaucracy, but the trickle-down effect from Musk’s ...
Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...
The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in ...
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 Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly revises its estimates based on survey responses from thousands of US employers. Here ...
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...
Trump responded by doing what Trump does: goes ballistic, acts impulsively, attacks the messenger, and spews falsehoods.
Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...