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Trump Fires Bureau Of Labor Statistics Commissioner Over Data Integrity Concerns

President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top labor statistics official over the weekend while igniting a political firestorm.

CNN on MSN · 14h

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.” Yet revisions by the BLS were neither historic nor evidence of corruption.

The Washington Post on MSN · 6h

How is Bureau of Labor Statistics data collected, and why is Trump targeting it?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been thrust into the spotlight after President Trump criticized its federal jobs report and fired commissioner Erika McEntarfer.

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A former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner on the firing of BLS head

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erica Groshen about the firing of one of her successors over the latest jobs numbers.

‘Not possible’ for commissioner to have ‘influence’ over labor data: Fmr. BLS Chief William Beach

Former Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner William Beach joins Meet the Press NOW to react to President Trump’s decision ...

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Labor Department Skirts Senators’ Questions on Inflation Data

A group of Democratic senators pressed the Labor Department in June over concerns about missing data in the survey behind ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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