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Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and to attack the messenger — all of which can hurt the president's efforts to ...
I was stunned last week when President Trump ordered the firing of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after ...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...
Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
Trump on Monday said he would be "substantially raising" tariffs on India, after imposing a 25% tariff rate against the ...
Trump had previously touted the May and June jobs reports as proof he was 'revitalizing the American economy.' The revised data bursts those boasts.
The Trump administration stands on the cusp of something potentially transformative. If President Donald Trump succeeds in ...
President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that Vice President JD Vance may be the future standard-bearer of the MAGA movement, ...
When I heard the news the authoritarian imbecile had fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics director for the crime of factual math, I dimly recalled something that George Orwell had written in a ...
President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a widely respected economist ...