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Trump fires labor official over weak jobs number, orders criminal probes of past opponents
Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after disappointing July jobs report, claiming the ...
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Beyond the Jobs Numbers: A Deeper Look at U.S. Employment Trends
Kory Kantenga, Head of Economics Americas at LinkedIn, unpacks Friday’s jobs numbers, labor force trends, and signals of a ...
Trump fired the BLS chief for a bad jobs report. Here’s how those numbers are gathered
The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.
Trump calls fired BLS commissioner's job numbers the 'biggest miscalculations in over 50 years'
U.S. President Donald Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of faking employment data to all-time highs before the ...
Why Jobs Numbers Were Revised Sharply Downward for June, May
Job market data get revised every month. But rarely are the revisions as negative as the ones in Friday’s employment report.
Trump's claims of 'rigged' jobs numbers challenged by CNBC host
CNBC news anchor Joe Kernen confronted President Trump over firing the top labor statistics chief, saying it "undermines confidence in the system." ...
Fact check: No evidence for Trump's claims of ‘rigged' or ‘phony' job numbers
Hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data showing slow job growth for July and prior months, ...
Trump's Former Labor Statistics Chief Says There's 'No Way' Jobs Numbers Were 'Rigged'
William Beach criticized the president for the shock firing of Erika McEntarfer, his successor at the Bureau of Labor ...
Trump doubles down on claim that jobs numbers are rigged
President Donald Trump continued his diatribe against the July jobs numbers on Monday in a social media post, repeating his ...
Trump fires a senior official over jobs numbers
President Donald Trump has fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he accused of ...
The real problem with America's jobs data
President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...