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Did DOGE contribute to the BLS jobs report that Trump hated? Economist Mark Zandi thinks so

Elon Musk’s DOGE may have completed much of its work in the federal bureaucracy, but the trickle-down effect from Musk’s ...
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‘The neutrality of the agency has been eliminated’: Stats-based feds decry BLS chief’s firing

Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...

Trump says the Bureau of Labor Statistics orchestrated a ‘scam.’ Here’s how the jobs report really works

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...

Revisions are a common feature of any jobs report says former BLS commissioner

While the downward revision of May and June payroll growth by 258,000 marked the largest two-month downward revision to the ...

Reed demands probe into Trump’s firing of official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report

PROVIDENCE — US Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a weaker-than-expected ...
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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 ...

Bessent: How Can The Fed Set Rates When Jobs Data Is This Broken? "This Was A Five Standard Deviation Mistake"

Treasury Secretary Bessent defended President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head Erika McEntarfer after unprecedented downward revisions to May and June jobs figures ...

Why the B.L.S. Regularly Revises Jobs Data

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...