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In rejecting the jobs report, Trump follows his own playbook of discrediting unfavorable data

President Donald Trump has a pattern of dismissing or altering data that reflects poorly on him. During his first term, he ...

Tracking Trump: Trump attacks the jobs report; a VA proposal to end abortion services; Pirro confirmed as U.S. attorney; and more

Trump proposed restrictions on VA hospitals providing abortions. The Senate confirmed Fox host Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney ...

‘Trust America’ Trade Under Threat: Why the Jobs Report, BLS Firing, and Fed Resignation Sparked Market Jitters

A so-called “sell America” trade, which led in part to the weakest 7-month stretch for the dollar in five decades, developed ...

How Trump decided to fire a little-known statistician, sparking conspiracy theories about government data

President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled ...

Live updates: Trump again bashes jobs report as governors battle over redistricting

President Donald Trump said Sunday night that he would announce a replacement Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner “some ...
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That bombshell jobs report? Some economists saw it coming.

Nguyen said sure, the report showed the labor market was weaker than he’d thought. But, he said, “the data actually reaffirms ...

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 ...