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In August 2025, President Trump dismissed the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and seeks to appoint a new chief ...
Economist Steve Moore discusses President Donald Trump’s economic policy and ‘correct’ firing of a Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
President Trump fired the head of BLS after accusing the bureaucrat of revising downward recent monthly job tallies to make ...
Bureau of Labor Statistics faces scrutiny over data collection methods following disappointing July jobs report that missed economist estimates by 37,000 positions.
President Trump trotted out new, "unpublished" economic data following his surprise firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
Trump fired the previous head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after he was unhappy with a weaker-than-expected July jobs ...
WH Economic Council director Kevin Hassett was pressed repeatedly on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the labor ...
Last week, President Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in apparent retaliation for weak jobs ...
Trump’s reaction to July’s jobs report created a whole new controversy. Can Congress’ new normal be disrupted? Plus, KCRW ...
What happens next can only go wrong for him and the U.S. Here’s what experts and critics are arguing in the aftermath.
But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...
For years, the U.K.'s main economic statistics agency has faced growing scrutiny about how it collects employment data.