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Trump fires labor official over weak jobs number, orders criminal probes of past opponents
Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after disappointing July jobs report, claiming the ...
Trump administration rolls back Elon Musk’s email telling federal employees to justify their jobs
Federal employees will no longer have to meet Elon Musk’s demand that they list their weekly accomplishments in an email or ...
Trump stokes conspiracies about jobs data, as White House defends firing BLS chief
The comments are the latest effort by the White House to undercut economic data that does not fit within Trump's political ...
Why were US job numbers which riled Trump revised down by so much?
President Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after the department revised down job numbers which ...
Live updates: Global markets mostly gain after Trump’s tariffs and jobs report sent Wall Street tumbling
Global markets bounced back Monday after Wall Street's poor performance Friday following a weak jobs report and U.S.
Trump calls fired BLS commissioner's job numbers the 'biggest miscalculations in over 50 years'
U.S. President Donald Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of faking employment data to all-time highs before the ...
Trump’s rewriting of reality on jobs numbers is chilling, but it could backfire
When authoritarianism encroaches, apologists often present a strongman’s power grabs as rational — even imperative for the ...
Donald Trump 'In Denial' About Job Figures, Economy—Nate Silver
Nate Silver is the founder of 538 and was one of the most prominent polling experts during last year's presidential election.