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Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...
President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...
Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.
Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.
Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...