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Trump had previously touted the May and June jobs reports as proof he was 'revitalizing the American economy.' The revised data bursts those boasts.
Victoria Guida is an economics correspondent at POLITICO and author of Capital Letter, a reported column that probes policies ...
Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi warned that the U.S. economy is on the precipice of recession as weak jobs data and rising inflation complicate the Federal Reserve's policy moves.
Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer is out because President Donald Trump didn't like the July jobs report.
President Trump, unhappy with the latest economic data, fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's bad news.
Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...
Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...
Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...
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Editorial: Mr. Trump's public-servant tightrope
President Trump is understandably put out with the abysmal performance of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in its monthly endeavor to track national employment data. But contrary to his assessment ...
The Trump administration has influenced data used by researchers, economists and scientists — an effort that drew more ...
I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was ...
A growing number of Republicans on Capitol Hill are expressing unease about the state of the U.S. economy, as a disappointing jobs report coincides with President Trump’s latest tariff hikes on ...