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Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics raises fears for the integrity of official statistics.
President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, hours after the agency released a weaker-than-expected jobs report. Trump wrote on social media that the numbers were ...
Donald Trump has long wanted to fire government officials producing politically inconvenient statistics. Now he’s doing it.
President Trump is facing criticism after firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics just hours after a disappointing ...
The Trump administration is standing by a decision to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, after the July jobs report showed lackluster data. CBS News' Weijia ...
President Trump on Sunday defended his decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the now former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor ...
P resident Donald Trump was headed late Sunday back to Washington, where he says he's expecting this week to hire a new ...
President Trump has fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming the latest jobs report was manipulated ...
Possible candidates for the Fed governor position include National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, former Fed ...
President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...
William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing “baseless” and “damaging” in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...
When authoritarianism encroaches, apologists often present a strongman’s power grabs as rational — even imperative for the ...