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Trump, BLS and monthly jobs

CNN on MSN · 30m

Trump’s pick for BLS commissioner floated suspending the monthly jobs report before apparently backing off

EJ Antoni, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is no longer considering suspending the monthly jobs report — one of the most crucial and historic measurements of US economic activity — after proposing the unprecedented action during an interview that published Tuesday.

The Hill on MSN · 1h

Trump BLS pick suggests suspending monthly jobs report over data concerns

President Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) suggested the agency should stop issuing monthly jobs reports, claiming that the data the agency uses to calculate them is not reliable.

HuffPost on MSN · 1h

Trump BLS Nominee Suggests Nixing Monthly Jobs Report

E.J. Antoni said the Bureau of Labor Statistics should suspend a monthly estimate that recently upset President Donald Trump.

Trump, Inflation and tariffs

ABC News · 55m

Prices climbed less than expected in July, despite Trump's tariffs

Economists expect prices to have risen 2.8% in July compared to a year earlier, which would amount to a slight uptick from 2.7% year-over-year growth in the previous month. Still, the anticipated inflation rate would clock in below 3% recorded in January, the month Trump took office.

POLITICO on MSN · 5h

Inflation ticks higher as Trump's tariffs kick in

But so-called core inflation — which excludes volatile food and energy costs — rose above 3 percent for the first time in six months as more businesses began to pass along the cost of the administration’s tariffs to American consumers.

Trump Gets More Terrible News on Inflation as He Tries to Rig Numbers

The agency—fresh off Trump’s ouster of its commissioner on preposterous allegations of political bias (for poor July jobs numbers)—reported Tuesday that inflation rose 0.2 percent in July on a month-over-month basis,

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Why Trump tapping a BLS skeptic to lead the agency is ‘just a very bad idea’

President Trump says he is nominating E.J. Antoni to be the new Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner. Antoni has been a ...

59mon MSN

‘Crazy!!’: How Labor Statistics staff reacted to Trump firing commissioner after dismal jobs report

Staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics called President Donald Trump's firing of its commissioner “depressing” and “CRAZY!!” ...

9m

Trump names former Texas Public Policy Foundation economist to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics

Antoni's nomination comes a week after he posted on social media criticizing the Bureau of Labor's leadership and data.

4h

Trump’s BLS pick is an ‘extreme partisan’ with no technical understanding of data: Jason Furman

President Trump says he will nominate E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the new ...

24m

Trump’s pick for BLS commissioner floated suspending monthly jobs report before apparently backing off

The nominee previously told Fox News Digital the reports, which help measure US economic activity, were unreliable and ...

5hon MSN

Economists stunned at Trump’s “completely unqualified” BLS pick: “Disastrously terrible”

The post Economists stunned at Trump’s “completely unqualified” BLS pick: “Disastrously terrible” appeared first on Salon.com ...

8h

Jobs data triggered Trump, but Fed officials saw it not as rigged, but as reason to cut

The very data that caused President Donald Trump to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he did not like ...

9h

Tom Saler: Government workers like fired BLS commissioner are often overlooked, unappreciated

Saving taxpayer money, saving lives and finding novel solutions to meaningful problems is what government workers do every day.

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