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But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
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 ...
Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.
In a move that forms part of his drive to establish a presidential dictatorship, Trump justified the sacking with bogus claims that the numbers had been “rigged” to make him and the Republicans look ...
Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...
Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).
Donald Trump's move to fire the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has put trust in U.S. data reporting mechanisms on the line just as demand for reliable diagnoses of the health of the world ...
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Aug. 1, 2025, the day a poor jobs report ...
Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer is out because President Donald Trump didn't like the July jobs report.