"Black workers are often last hired, first fired," said Angela Hanks, chief of policy programs of The Century Foundation.

President Donald Trump may see lower Federal Reserve interest rates as a fix for two politically potent problems, the cost of servicing $36 trillion in government debt and the high cost of home ownership,

President Donald Trump called on the board of the Federal Reserve to take control from Chairman Jerome Powell if interest rates are not lowered. After a brief display of public friendliness, Trump resumed his rhetorical offensive against Powell on Wednesday after he announced that the Fed would not lower interest rates.

President Donald Trump directed his Administration on Friday to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released a report that showed that the U.S. added fewer jobs in July than many economists had expected,

The statistical agency's problems predate Trump, but experts say it can't be easily fixed without more resources