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Labor data official: Agency’s ‘mission is unchanged’
The Bureau of Labor Statistics signaled to staff members Monday morning that work would continue as usual at the statistical agency, where President Donald Trump fired the top official Friday over a ...
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 ...
In rejecting the jobs report, Trump follows his own playbook of discrediting unfavorable data
When the coronavirus surged during President Donald Trump’s first term, he called for a simple fix: Limit the amount of ...
AI is already driving up unemployment among young tech workers, according to Goldman Sachs
Since early 2024, the unemployment rate increase for 20- to 30-year-olds in tech has risen much faster than the overall ...
How reliable is the jobs data? Economists and Wall Street still trust it
Most economists say that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a nonpolitical agency staffed by people obsessed with getting the ...