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CNBC host pushes back on Trump over ‘rigged’ report: ‘Give me a break’

CNBC anchor Joe Kernen questioned President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his claims about a recent jobs report. A revised ...
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Trump Doesn’t Like Jobs Numbers, Fires Head of Labor Stats

President Donald Trump has fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), after the agency ...

Trump doesn’t trust jobs data, but these experts do

Trump has focused on the revisions to the May and June data, which on Friday were revised lower, with job gains in May ...
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Fact Check Team: Politicization or poor performance? Trump fires BLS commissioner

President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing her mishandling of ...

Who is Erika McEntarfer fired by Donald Trump as head of Labor Statistics department? Why was she asked to step down?

Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump’s unhappiness with Friday’s jobs ...

Trust in US economic data on the line: Easy to lose, hard to restore

Donald Trump's move to fire the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has put trust in U.S. data reporting mechanisms ...

Economists push back on Trump’s assertion that July jobs data was ‘rigged’

Labor economist Aaron Sojourner said President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner ...
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Trump fired a commissioner over bad jobs numbers. Nixon targeted a ‘Jewish cabal’ at the same agency

Fifty years-plus after Nixon demanded a tally of Jewish staffers at the BLS, Trump fired Erika McEntarfer over numbers he ...

Until Trump Fired Her, She Was an Economist With Bipartisan Support

Erika McEntarfer led the agency that produced key data on jobs and inflation. Then July’s report showed a weakening economy, ...

How Trump decided to fire a little-known statistician, sparking conspiracy theories about government data

President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled ...