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Republican senators raise concerns about Trump's firing of Labor Department official
Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday after the agency released a jobs report that showed a ...
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Trump fires head of BLS: Historical data show low revised numbers not uncommon
President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the latest job report showed hiring slowed in ...
Trump trade adviser: President has ‘real concerns’ about jobs data after BLS firing
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer weighed in on President Trump’s decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS ...
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Trump’s baseless ‘manipulated’ data claim in firing BLS chief Erika McEntarfer follows long history
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 ...
US Job Growth Slowed In July
The U. S. economy added 73,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in July, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor ...
Stunning revisions show US added 258K fewer jobs than first reported
The U.S. added 258,000 fewer jobs in May and June than the Labor Department first reported, according to federal data ...
Summer labor market is much weaker than previously reported
While tariffs, high interest rates, stubborn inflation and federal government cuts have yet to sink the labor market into turmoil, signs of underlying weakness are growing.
People are leaving the U.S. labor market. What gives?
The U.S. unemployment rate might be deceptively low at 4.2%. Why is that? It's because many people have left the labor force this year. If fewer people are looking for work, the unemployment rate ...