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The House Education and the Workforce Committee is unlikely to fulfill a request from House Democrats to hold a congressional ...
Revised employment figures from the BLS revealed a significant slowdown in hiring, prompting concerns about the US economy's ...
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...
Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Tuesday tore apart President Donald Trump for firing the head of the Bureau of Labor ...
Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer is out because President Donald Trump didn't like the July jobs report.
Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...
Opinion
Jobs, data and democracy
The July jobs report released last Friday wasn’t pretty. It showed weaker than anticipated U.S. job growth in July, and there were substantial downward revisions of jobs numbers for May and June as ...
The BLS jobs survey is widely considered by economists to be robust. It samples more than 100,000 businesses and government ...
Victoria Guida is an economics correspondent at POLITICO and author of Capital Letter, a reported column that probes policies ...
Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...