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Days after he responded to a disappointing jobs report by firing the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Trump ...
The week ahead is very big for the economy. Reports from the federal government are due on inflation, jobless claims, retail ...
Geopolitics is high on the agenda, with a meeting between the U.S. and Russian presidents, trade deadlines and talks, and ...
Officials are looking at E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, to head ...
Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ leader compounds a yearslong struggle to modernize methods and maintain ...
Michigan's governor met privately with President Donald Trump to urge him to change course on tariffs that are having a big ...
In 2007, Graciela Bevacqua, Argentina’s consumer-price index chief, was ousted from her position at the national statistics ...
Reason magazine senior editor Robby Soave and Axios reporter Stef Kight analyze President Donald Trump's treatment of ...
Like any government agency, the BLS is a thoroughly political entity. And yet Donald Trump’s critics are right to be worried.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics needs to turn to real-time information as its surveys increasingly go unanswered.
PolitiFact Ruling: Pants on Fire. The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day ...