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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 ...
July employment is up 1.0% from last July. The year-over-year change in employment has been running between 1.0% and 1.3% ...
President Trump, unhappy with the latest economic data, fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's bad news.
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 ...
President Donald Trump was laughed at and fact-checked live on CNBC during a wild phone interview in which he claimed the ...
Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...
Trump’s decision to dismiss Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) chief Erika McEntarfer was taken on Friday afternoon, just ...
The former labor secretary calls Bureau of Labor Statistics “crown jewel” of government efforts to explain the economy.
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...
The jobs report for July revealed that some 258,000 fewer jobs were added in May and June than previously reported.
A modest increase in long-term joblessness could reflect employers getting pickier amid uncertainty over tariffs.