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Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.
The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in charge of producing it. But economists haven’t forgotten about America’s job ...
President Donald Trump says the U.S. economy is going great under his stewardship. The latest jobs numbers suggest a slowdown ...
In case you had any doubt that it’s Donald “Economy Butcher” Trump who’s really trying to rig the economic numbers.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Aug. 1, 2025, the day a poor jobs report ...
In firing the head of the agency that produces monthly jobs figures, President Donald Trump alleged that the recent ...
July employment is up 1.0% from last July. The year-over-year change in employment has been running between 1.0% and 1.3% ...
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).
Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi warned that the U.S. economy is on the precipice of recession as weak jobs data and rising ...
In the 21st century, U.S. economic data has become embedded in the life of the nation. It determines increases in Social Security benefits for retirees, influences the purchases of auto and home ...
President Trump, unhappy with the latest economic data, fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's bad news.