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On Tuesday, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, desperate for Trump’s endorsement as he seeks reelection, tried to show some MAGA muscle ...
Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Tuesday tore apart President Donald Trump for firing the head of the Bureau of Labor ...
President Donald Trump said Thursday he has instructed the Commerce Department to change the way the Census Bureau collects ...
President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics carries reputational risks for the ...
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).
Francis Fukuyama warns Trump’s moves could erode institutional independence—and business leaders won’t feel it until it’s too ...
The numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had forecasted. But the real surprise came in the revisions to data from May and June, ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended President Donald Trump’s firing of the head of the agency that reports US labor data hours after an unexpectedly weak jobs report, saying a revamp was long ...
Donald Trump has always had a mixed relationship with numbers. They are at once hard, objective truths that provide explicit measures of success: “huge ratings,” “polling like you wouldn’t believe.” ...
President Donald Trump said Thursday he has instructed the Commerce Department to change the way the Census Bureau collects ...