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The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...
The House Education and the Workforce Committee is unlikely to fulfill a request from House Democrats to hold a congressional ...
This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.
President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a widely respected economist ...
Treasury Secretary Bessent defended President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head Erika McEntarfer after unprecedented downward revisions to May and June jobs figures ...
President Donald Trump is the first president to fire the chief of a key government agency that produces the crucial U.S. jobs report. To hear President Donald Trump and his allies tell it, the ...
President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics carries reputational risks for the ...
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...
The numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had ...
The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits ticked up to the highest level in a month last week ...
A former Federal Reserve official gets candid about Trump’s firing of the BLS chief.