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Like President Donald Trump, Americans are skeptical of economic data from the federal government, according to a new poll.
House Democrats asked for a congressional hearing on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer.
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...
Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.
But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...
The BLS jobs survey is widely considered by economists to be robust. It samples more than 100,000 businesses and government ...
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).
Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...
Canning the labor chief will make jobs statistics less trustworthy, but authoritarians thrive in a world of blurred fact and ...
Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...
Was Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer arrested by "U.S. Navy JAG" on "treason charges" related to the ...