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Trump fires head of labor statistics bureau after weak jobs report: Recap
An anemic July jobs report boosted expectations the Federal Reserve might lower interest rates in September. Trump said the ...
Economist says Bureau of Labor Statistics data is 'very objective'
Leo Feler, chief economist at Numerator, discusses how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports data, and what the ...
Trump vs. the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Why This Firing Could Burn Your Finances
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Trump to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer after jobs report
President Trump said he directed his team to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer following a dismal jobs ...
Fallout from Bureau of Labor and Statistics firing as new tariffs go into effect
President Trump fired the BLS chair Erika McEntarfer on Friday, claiming without evidence that jobs data was manipulated, and ...
Who is Erika McEntarfer fired by Donald Trump as head of Labor Statistics department? Why was she asked to step down?
Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump’s unhappiness with Friday’s jobs ...
The president fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer after a bad jobs report on Friday.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough torched President Donald Trump for firing his top economic statistician in what the host called a fact-free tirade. “Less is more on this issue,” Scarborough said on Morning ...
How the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report really works
President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a "scam," ...
Trump’s dismissal of labor statistics chief is part of his modus operandi
Until Friday, McEntarfer was the country’s commissioner of labor statistics, a vital, though largely behind-the-scenes, role ...
Congress must act quickly to restore confidence in government statistics | Opinion
Congress should create an independent bureau of statistics, separate from all political departments, to produce trustworthy ...
What Trump put at risk when he fired the labor statistics chief for telling the truth
One Democrat called Trump's ouster of Erika McEntarfer’s “the stuff of fascist dictatorships.” The consequences of the abuse ...
Trump set to announce his pick for head of Bureau of Labor Statistics within days
President Donald Trump is not expected to waste much time naming his choice to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, following his firing of Commissioner Erika McEntarfer ...