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Fact Check Team: Politicization or poor performance? Trump fires BLS commissioner
President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing her mishandling of ...
Facing facts about Trump and the jobs numbers
In announcing the firing of the government’s chief labor statistician last week, President Trump condemned the works of Erika ...
Former Trump advisor criticizes Trump’s timing on ousting America’s data czar: ‘Like firing the referee’
After a historic downward revision to jobs numbers, Trump fired the head of the BLS. But critics on both sides say the move ...
Easy to lose, hard to restore: US data trust on the line
Trump fired labour statistics chief last week, undermining trust in key data. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...
Fact check: Trump's claims jobless numbers were 'rigged'
Trump has falsely alleged that former BLS commissioner "faked" employment numbers before the 2024 election in order to better ...
Fact check: Trump’s claim that pre-election jobs revisions helped Democrats
The jobs report for July revealed that some 258,000 fewer jobs were added in May and June than previously reported.
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 ...
Economists push back on Trump’s assertion that July jobs data was ‘rigged’
Labor economist Aaron Sojourner said President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner ...
Until Trump Fired Her, She Was an Economist With Bipartisan Support
Erika McEntarfer led the agency that produced key data on jobs and inflation. Then July’s report showed a weakening economy, ...
Was This Summer’s Healthy Job Market A Mirage?
Plus, should you scrub your social media before your job hun, how AI can overlook top talent and Boeing defense workers go on ...