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Fed official says last week's jobs revisions could signal an economic turning point
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...
Trump says he doesn’t trust the jobs data, but Wall Street and economists do
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...
Why jobs revisions that led Trump to fire statistics head were so huge
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).
How to Know When to Freak Out about Data Manipulation at BLS
Victoria Guida is an economics correspondent at POLITICO and author of Capital Letter, a reported column that probes policies ...
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‘The neutrality of the agency has been eliminated:’ Stats-based feds decry BLS chief’s firing
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
Bank of America's CEO responds to weak jobs report that spurred Trump firing of BLS chief
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said there must be better ways to collect employment data after President Trump fired the ...
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U.S. jobs data can be seen as 99.9% correct
It’s one of many reasons economists of all political stripes have said in recent days that the U.S. is the gold standard of jobs data. They’ve all decried the BLS chief’s firing. Additionally, ...
Why the B.L.S. Regularly Revises Jobs Data
President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...