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Bernie Sanders Responded After Trump Fired The Head Of The Bureau Of Labor Statistics, And Everyone's Like, "YUP"
On Friday, after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing weak July hiring numbers and significant downward ...
Who is Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner fired by Trump?
Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that ...
Hassett says Trump ‘wants his own people’ at the Bureau of Labor Statistics after firing commissioner
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Sunday defended Donald Trump’s decision to fire Bureau of Labor ...
Economists push back on Trump’s assertion that July jobs data was ‘rigged’
Labor economist Aaron Sojourner said President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner ...
Larry Summers says Trump's accusations of manipulated jobs numbers are ‘preposterous’
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers blasted President Donald Trump's firing of a top Bureau of Labor Statistics official.
The U.S. job market was weak in July, and previous months were worse than thought
Sharp revisions of government data show the U.S. created 33,000 jobs total in May and June, while July’s number came in soft, ...
Economy added just 73,000 jobs in July: The key facts and figures
The headline The economy added 73,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to 4.2%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Investors had expected roughly ...
US labour data agency was teetering even before Donald Trump fired its chief
Donald Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has exposed deepening fissures within a data agency vital to measuring the strength of the world’s largest economy. The US president ...