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Listen to The Journal Podcast: Trump vs. the Bureau of Labor Statistics
President Trump fired the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official after new data showed U.S. hiring slowed sharply this ...
Facing facts about Trump and the jobs numbers
In announcing the firing of the government’s chief labor statistician last week, President Trump condemned the works of Erika McEntarfer as “phony.” McEntarfer was just the 16th commissioner of ...
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 ...
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Fact Check Team: Politicization or poor performance? Trump fires BLS commissioner
President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing her mishandling of ...
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Trump fired a commissioner over bad jobs numbers. Nixon targeted a ‘Jewish cabal’ at the same agency
Fifty years-plus after Nixon demanded a tally of Jewish staffers at the BLS, Trump fired Erika McEntarfer over numbers he ...
How Trump decided to fire a little-known statistician, sparking conspiracy theories about government data
President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled ...