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Trump’s Stats Boss Plots Way to Stop Giving Bad Jobs Numbers

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggested ending the monthly jobs report after the ...
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WATCH: Asked if Trump administration will continue to release jobs report, Leavitt says ‘I believe that is the plan’

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the government will continue to issue the monthly jobs report, ...

‘Crazy!!’: How Labor Statistics staff reacted to Trump firing commissioner after dismal jobs report

Staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics called President Donald Trump's firing of its commissioner “depressing” and “CRAZY.

Trump’s nominee to oversee jobs, inflation data faces shower of criticism

The director of the agency that produces the nation’s jobs and inflation data is typically a mild-mannered technocrat, often ...

Massive revisions shook the jobs report. Tuesday’s inflation data could get cloudy, too

The next batch of inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was already shaping up to be a high-profile affair due ...

Jobs data triggered Trump, but Fed officials saw it not as rigged, but as reason to cut

The data that caused President Donald Trump to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he did not like the ...