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The head of the agency that compiles the closely watched monthly jobs report usually toils in obscurity, but on Friday, the current holder of that job was loudly fired by the president of the United ...
President Donald Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a disappointing July jobs report showed only 73,000 jobs added and major downward revisions to previous months. Accusing her of ...
Was Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer arrested by "U.S. Navy JAG" on "treason charges" related to the ...
E.J. Antoni is a partisan hack. A frequent guest on Steve Bannon’s "War Room" podcast, he’s joined Bannon in criticizing the ...
Like any government agency, the BLS is a thoroughly political entity. And yet Donald Trump’s critics are right to be worried.
When President Donald Trump announced his nomination of E.J. Antoni to replace Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika ...
William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing "baseless" and "damaging" in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...
Bureau of Labor Statistics staff won’t sit by quietly if the new chief tries to manipulate data Trump’s pick to take over at ...
Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...
President Donald Trump announced plans to nominate Heritage Foundation chief economist E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor ...
The president’s move throws the quality of America’s statistical apparatus into question.
President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer is unlikely to benefit the economy or his agenda, as the data collection process is transparent and the ...