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The House Education and the Workforce Committee is unlikely to fulfill a request from House Democrats to hold a congressional ...
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).
President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a widely respected economist ...
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...
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.
(CNN) — The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in charge of producing it. But economists haven’t forgotten about ...
Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' data does more than capture monthly job growth and inflation pressures_; it plays a crucial role in Americans’ financial lives, say Joe Pinsker, Heather Gillers and Ash ...
In case you had any doubt that it’s Donald “Economy Butcher” Trump who’s really trying to rig the economic numbers.