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The White House invited journalists into the Oval Office Thursday afternoon for a surprise appearance by conservative ...
President Donald Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, stating, without ...
USAFacts, the nonpartisan group founded by Steve Ballmer, warns against politicizing government data after Trump fires the ...
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
Trump’s reaction to July’s jobs report created a whole new controversy. Can Congress’ new normal be disrupted? Plus, KCRW ...
No, and no. The BLS is constantly modernizing its methods, and private companies cannot replace the BLS or any other US ...
President Trump and economist Stephen Moore held a surprise briefing in the Oval Office on Thursday, challenging the ...
A much smaller group of a dozen or fewer people then prepare the employment report. They lock the numbers into the BLS system and on the Wednesday before the report is published, the commissioner is ...
The recent revisions downward were unusually large, but there are many factors that require updating numbers, and rigging the data would be difficult.
President Donald Trump is the first president to fire the chief of a key government agency that produces the crucial U.S. jobs report. To hear President Donald Trump and his allies tell it, the ...
For years, the U.K.’s main economic statistics agency has faced growing scrutiny about how it collects employment data.
"The mindset of the market is to embrace risk because that brings rewards rather than losses -- keep shrugging it off," Steve ...