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Trump’s outburst over a bad jobs report is the second-term equivalent of his furious insistence in 2017 that more than a ...
In August 2025, President Trump dismissed the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and seeks to appoint a new chief ...
After President Donald Trump, angered by a weaker-than-normal monthly jobs report, fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming she had distorted the numbers for political gain, the New ...
That lesson has taken a new significance recently, when President Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor ...
However, Trump just gave investors two reasons to worry about another market crash: He recently reinstated modified versions ...
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after President Donald Trump on Friday fired the official who oversees it. Trump ...
Economist Steve Moore, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, said the government's official jobs numbers have been "corrupted." But he was singing a different tune when those figures were more ...
Trump's replacement of labor statistics head after bad report shouldn't hurt integrity of jobs numbers. But there may still be reason to worry.
The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly publishes a suite of reports and datasets that businesses, journalists, ...
Trump’s reaction to July’s jobs report created a whole new controversy. Can Congress’ new normal be disrupted? Plus, KCRW ...
The president's dismissal of the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics risks making the "gold standard" of information ...
This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.