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‘The neutrality of the agency has been eliminated:’ Stats-based feds decry BLS chief’s firing
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
Is the US headed toward a recession? Experts weigh in
Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...
What to know about Erika McEntarfer, the BLS commissioner fired by Trump
The BLS produces data relied on by businesses and policymakers, including the Fed.
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Trump’s baseless ‘manipulated’ data claim in firing BLS chief Erika McEntarfer follows long history
President Donald Trump took a step many economists had feared: firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nonpartisan agency that collects a wide range of closely watched employment and ...
Like Trump, Americans skeptical of government job data
Like President Donald Trump, Americans are skeptical of economic data from the federal government, according to a new poll.
Erika McEntarfer educational qualification and career path: How an economist rose to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics before being fired by Trump
Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was controversially fired by US President Donald Trump ...
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Trump fired a commissioner over bad jobs numbers. Nixon targeted a ‘Jewish cabal’ at the same agency
Fifty years-plus after Nixon demanded a tally of Jewish staffers at the BLS, Trump fired Erika McEntarfer over numbers he ...
Easy to lose, hard to restore: US data trust on the line
Donald Trump's move to fire the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has put trust in U.S. data reporting mechanisms on the line just as demand for reliable diagnoses of the health of the world ...
‘You’re Asking Me to Contemplate the Nuclear Scenario’
A former Federal Reserve official gets candid about Trump’s firing of the BLS chief.