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Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi warned that the U.S. economy is on the precipice of recession as weak jobs data and rising ...
In normal times, the first Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report.
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Jobs, data and democracy
The July jobs report released last Friday wasn’t pretty. It showed weaker than anticipated U.S. job growth in July, and there were substantial downward revisions of jobs numbers for May and June as ...
President Trump is right to raise doubts about the motivations of the government officials tasked with collecting and ...
Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...
Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...
Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...
When the facts don’t fit the President’s narrative, he asks for new ones, as evidenced by his recent firing of the Bureau of ...
President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...
Trump had previously touted the May and June jobs reports as proof he was 'revitalizing the American economy.' The revised data bursts those boasts.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly revises its estimates based on survey responses from thousands of US employers. Here ...
President Donald Trump has claimed, without evidence, that the massive revisions in the latest jobs report constituted a ...