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Bernie Sanders Responded After Trump Fired The Head Of The Bureau Of Labor Statistics, And Everyone's Like, "YUP"
On Friday, after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing weak July hiring numbers and significant downward ...
Who is Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner fired by Trump?
Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that ...
Hassett says Trump ‘wants his own people’ at the Bureau of Labor Statistics after firing commissioner
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Sunday defended Donald Trump’s decision to fire Bureau of Labor ...
Fallout from Bureau of Labor and Statistics firing as new tariffs go into effect
President Trump fired the BLS chair Erika McEntarfer on Friday, claiming without evidence that jobs data was manipulated, and pledged to announce a replacement soon.
A former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner on the firing of BLS head
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erica Groshen about the firing of one of her successors over the latest jobs numbers.
Economists push back on Trump’s assertion that July jobs data was ‘rigged’
Labor economist Aaron Sojourner said President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner ...
Larry Summers says Trump's accusations of manipulated jobs numbers are ‘preposterous’
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers blasted President Donald Trump's firing of a top Bureau of Labor Statistics official.
The U.S. job market was weak in July, and previous months were worse than thought
Sharp revisions of government data show the U.S. created 33,000 jobs total in May and June, while July’s number came in soft, ...