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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, the ...
The jobs report that enraged Trump was flashing a recession warning sign
The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in charge of producing it. But economists haven’t forgotten about America’s job ...
US labour data agency was teetering even before Donald Trump fired its chief
Donald Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has exposed deepening fissures within a data agency vital ...
Donald Trump says he doesn’t trust jobs data, but Wall Street and economists do
Economists and Wall Street investors have long considered the job figures reliable, with share prices and bond yields often ...
Social Security COLA at risk after Trump’s shock firing at the Labor Department
President Donald Trump’s firing of the commissioner of labor statistics, Erika McEntarfer, on Friday raises serious risks for ...