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Trump’s reaction to July’s jobs report created a whole new controversy. Can Congress’ new normal be disrupted? Plus, KCRW ...
The recent revisions downward were unusually large, but there are many factors that require updating numbers, and rigging the data would be difficult.
By all means, President Donald Trump had good reason to fire a Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner who failed to solve ...
Tom Wright-Piersanti, Lyna Bentahar and the staff of the Morning newsletter compiled this week’s quiz.
Donald Trump shocked reporters by abruptly firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — then inviting ...
President Donald Trump has, since he first returned to the White House in January, been on a steady march towards ...
During an Oval Office meeting, pro-Trump economist Steve Moore said the president made the right call to fire the head of Bureau of Labor Statistics given faulty jobs projections.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday alleged that jobs data had been "purposely" altered by the government's commissioner of ...
The president of the United States fired the head of the government's main economic statistics agency after a recent report ...
Trump's firing of McEntarfer led to widespread criticism, with pundits warning that Trump was intimidating officials to only present him positive information.
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically ...