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GOP mocks House Democrats’ request for a hearing on why Trump fired the BLS commissioner

The House Education and the Workforce Committee is unlikely to fulfill a request from House Democrats to hold a congressional ...

Why jobs revisions that led Trump to fire statistics head were so huge

The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).

Opinion | Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.

President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a widely respected economist ...

Editorial: Firing labor statistician undermines future White House data

By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that ...