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Kevin Hassett pointed to the scale of hiring data revisions when asked for evidence to support Trump’s claims that the jobs report was politically rigged.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers had choice words for President Donald Trump after he fired his stats boss over an ...
Top White House officials defended the move to fire the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics by US President Donald Trump ...
"This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism," Larry Summers said. "This is really scary stuff." ...
President Donald Trump has for months tried to pressure Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to resign from his post if he ...
President Donald Trump didn’t like the latest job numbers and revisions to the May and June statistics, so he just fired the chief of the […] ...
A former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics appointed by President Donald Trump said Trump's accusations against the agency are false. The post Trump’s Former Jobs Data Chief Says ‘There’s ...
The firing drew backlash from economists and others fearing that such a move will undermine trust in the key economic data in the future.
Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...
The president responded to the lackluster July jobs report by directing his team to fire the chief of the Bureau of Labor ...
Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), who President Trump fired following a dismal jobs report, said it was the “honor of my life” to serve in ...
The labor statistics chief that President Trump fired Friday is a "terrific person, but the jobs data her agency produced has ...