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The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...
President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...
Victoria Guida is an economics correspondent at POLITICO and author of Capital Letter, a reported column that probes policies ...
But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...
Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.
By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that ...
Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Aug. 1, 2025, the day a poor jobs report ...