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Trump fired a commissioner over bad jobs numbers. Nixon targeted a ‘Jewish cabal’ at the same agency

Fifty years-plus after Nixon demanded a tally of Jewish staffers at the BLS, Trump fired Erika McEntarfer over numbers he ...

White House searches for a new BLS chief with 'credibility' and 'experience'

Trump fired the previous head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after he was unhappy with a weaker-than-expected July jobs ...

Why is reliable data important for the economy? Experts weigh in

A host of policymakers, businesses and consumers rely on BLS data. The monthly inflation report is crucial to the Federal ...
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Fact Check Team: Politicization or poor performance? Trump fires BLS commissioner

President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing her mishandling of the nation's jobs data.

Republicans turn on Trump over ‘Deep State’ firing: he ‘ought to grow up’

Trump accused McEntarfer of intentionally over-reporting job growth before the 2024 presidential election in a bid to help ...

Trump’s BLS Firing Tests Wall Street’s Reliance on Government Data

Some fear a decline in the world-leading economic statistics underpinning U.S. markets ...
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Former BLS commissioner says it’s not possible to rig jobs numbers

On Friday, President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, after the July jobs report ...

Trump defends firing Biden-appointed statistician over ‘fake political’ jobs numbers

Trump took a page from the 2020 playbook to explain his firing of Commissioner of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer.