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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.
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...
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 ...
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!
The American economy is "bending — but not yet breaking" under the weight of Trump's policies, said Eric Levitz at Vox. An ...
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...
The other key release that is published by the BLS is the consumer price index that’s published about two to three weeks into the month following, and it is the basis for the inflation gauge that the ...
Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...
When I was the press assistant in the Obama White House, there was one thing I could always count on: the first Friday of every month was jobs day. Even a decade later, I wake up ...