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President Donald Trump may see lower Federal Reserve interest rates as a fix for two politically potent problems, the cost of ...
Just like the workers on his construction projects, Donald Trump wrote the Black community a bad check during the campaign,” ...
The jobs report for July revealed that some 258,000 fewer jobs were added in May and June than previously reported.
Trump responded by doing what Trump does: goes ballistic, acts impulsively, attacks the messenger, and spews falsehoods.
"Black workers are often last hired, first fired," said Angela Hanks, chief of policy programs of The Century Foundation.
President Trump fired the BLS commissioner after accusing the agency of rigging job numbers. The firing follows sharp ...
In announcing the firing of the government’s chief labor statistician last week, President Trump condemned the works of Erika McEntarfer as “phony.” McEntarfer was just the 16th commissioner of ...
Trump’s knee-jerk response to troublesome data is to deny it. He has eliminated climate change and disease statistics that contradict his views.
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...
Economists across the political spectrum are sounding the alarm over President Trump’s decision to fire the Labor Department’s top statistician in response to a stalled-out July jobs report that ...
Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer oversaw a July jobs report that the president claims was rigged ...