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In rejecting U.S. jobs report, Trump follows his own playbook of discrediting unfavourable data
When the coronavirus surged during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term, he called for a simple fix: Limit the amount of ...
July Jobs Report Shows Hiring Slowed: 5 Key Takeaways
The U.S. economy added 73,000 jobs in July, which is fewer than expected, as the unemployment rate increased to 4.2%.
Trump axes Labor Statistics chief after his poor jobs report: ‘I believe the numbers were phony ... so I fired her’
UPDATED: Following a jobs report Friday that showed the U.S. labor market slowing, Donald Trump took aim at the statistics ...
Trump might not trust the jobs data, but Wall Street and economists do
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after U ...
Steve Moore warns job creation numbers are ‘increasingly unreliable’ amid weak July report
Former Trump economic advisor Steve Moore discusses the July jobs report and President Donald Trump’s efforts to make a new ...
Official jobs numbers show it's a bad time to be looking for work—unless you're in this field
The U.S. economy added just 73,000 nonfarm jobs in July, according to the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's below market expectations and the roughly 80,000 benchmark for ...
The jobs report that enraged Trump was flashing a recession warning sign
The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in ...