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President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a widely respected economist ...
The House Education and the Workforce Committee is unlikely to fulfill a request from House Democrats to hold a congressional ...
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...
A former Federal Reserve official gets candid about Trump’s firing of the BLS chief.
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...
Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.
We’ve all been there, in the middle of an objectively bad outcome, and had the same knee-jerk reaction: Blame someone else!
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Aug. 1, 2025, the day a poor jobs report ...
The BLS jobs survey is widely considered by economists to be robust. It samples more than 100,000 businesses and government ...
Donald Trump's move to fire the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has put trust in U.S. data reporting mechanisms on the line just as demand for reliable diagnoses of the health of the world ...