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President Trump’s abrupt dismissal of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, stemming from his mistrust of ...
Trump on Monday said he would be "substantially raising" tariffs on India, after imposing a 25% tariff rate against the ...
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...
The latest data on new claims indicates employers are not yet turning to large-scale layoffs as the economy loses steam but ...
Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council and one of the so-called "two Kevins" that may be the next chief of the Federal Reserve, has spun up a new conspiracy over data quality, ...
A much smaller group of a dozen or fewer people then prepare the employment report. They lock the numbers into the BLS system and on the Wednesday before the report is published, the commissioner is ...
The sweeping levies imposed on nearly every country mark a watershed moment in the president's effort to upend world trade.
President Donald Trump said Thursday he has instructed the Commerce Department to change the way the Census Bureau collects ...
Like President Donald Trump, Americans are skeptical of economic data from the federal government, according to a new poll.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will decide on a nominee to fill a coming vacancy on the Federal Reserve's ...
Thanks to cuts in federal government employment, America’s own economic data are becoming increasingly unreliable. As the New York Times reported late last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is ...