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Trump picks conservative BLS critic to lead BLS

Trump fired the previous BLS commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, 11 days ago after a weak July jobs report that he baselessly ...

Trump’s BLS pick is an ‘extreme partisan’ with no technical understanding of data: Jason Furman

President Trump says he will nominate E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the new ...

BLS nominee made claim that no ‘sensible economist would use’ — and that’s one of the kinder comments

President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics has made a series of controversial assertions that ...

WATCH: Biden jobs chart had 'gigantic error'; Trump right to fire BLS chief, economist says

During an Oval Office meeting, pro-Trump economist Steve Moore said the president made the right call to fire the head of ...

Trump was correct to fire BLS chief after data became ‘increasingly unreliable,’ says former Trump advisor

Economist Steve Moore discusses President Donald Trump’s economic policy and ‘correct’ firing of a Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

Inflation data to draw scrutiny after BLS firing, $2.1-trillion TIPS market at risk

Monthly U.S. inflation data is under increased scrutiny after President Donald Trump removed the head of the U.S. Bureau of ...
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Trump’s Firing of BLS Chief Is Bound to Backfire

What happens next can only go wrong for him and the U.S. Here’s what experts and critics are arguing in the aftermath.

In Firing the BLS Chief, Trump Escalates His Administration’s War on Data

But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...

Firing the BLS chief was a petulant move, says former CEA chair Greg Mankiw

Greg Mankiw, Harvard University economics professor and former CEA chairman, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the fallout from ...