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Trump stokes conspiracies about jobs data, as White House defends firing BLS chief
The comments are the latest effort by the White House to undercut economic data that does not fit within Trump's political ...
Tracking Trump: Trump attacks the jobs report; a VA proposal to end abortion services; Pirro confirmed as U.S. attorney; and more
Trump proposed restrictions on VA hospitals providing abortions. The Senate confirmed Fox host Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney ...
Top Trump Adviser Fails To Offer Evidence That Jobs Reports Were ‘Rigged’
“The revisions are hard evidence,” National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett argued during a Sunday appearance on ...
White House on defense over President Trump’s firing of official responsible for jobs data
After President Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, he called a recent jobs report “rigged”. A ...
Why were US job numbers which riled Trump revised down by so much?
President Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after the department revised down job numbers which ...
Trump calls fired BLS commissioner's job numbers the 'biggest miscalculations in over 50 years'
U.S. President Donald Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of faking employment data to all-time highs before the ...
Trump’s rewriting of reality on jobs numbers is chilling, but it could backfire
When authoritarianism encroaches, apologists often present a strongman’s power grabs as rational — even imperative for the ...
Donald Trump 'In Denial' About Job Figures, Economy—Nate Silver
Nate Silver is the founder of 538 and was one of the most prominent polling experts during last year's presidential election.