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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Risks to the job market have increased, but it remains too soon to commit to interest rate cuts before ...
President Donald Trump on Thursday instructed the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census ...
I n the annals of the American presidency, Donald Trump has almost certainly complained more about journalists than any of ...
Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over an inconvenient jobs report will make it harder to build a dynamic ...
President Trump on Thursday said he had instructed the Department of Commerce to "immediately begin work on a new and highly ...
The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers still retaining workers ...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...
Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.
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 ...
After a rough July jobs report, Trump promptly fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming without evidence that the data was “rigged” to hurt him.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CBO, and the Fed are far from perfect. But the U.S. needs a statistical system that is modern, agile, and protected from political interference.
President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics carries reputational risks for the ...