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House Democrats asked for a congressional hearing on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer.
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that ...
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
President Trump’s firing of Commissioner of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer last Friday brought into laser focus how willing he ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...
Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.
Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...
Trump had previously touted the May and June jobs reports as proof he was 'revitalizing the American economy.' The revised data bursts those boasts.
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...