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Donald Trump's firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner undermines the federal government's credibility.
Earnings season marches on, with Eli Lilly among the big names yet to report this week. President Trump has said he will name replacements this week for Federal Reserve governor Adriana Kugler and [Bu ...
President Trump’s firing last week of the head of the United States’ Bureau of Labor Statistics is straight out of the ...
Thanks to cuts in federal government employment, America’s own economic data are becoming increasingly unreliable. As the New York Times reported late last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is ...
Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
Trump on Monday said he would be "substantially raising" tariffs on India, after imposing a 25% tariff rate against the ...
Our government uses the fig leaf of “cultural exchange” to flood the summer job market with tens of thousands of student ...
When I heard the news the authoritarian imbecile had fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics director for the crime of factual math, I dimly recalled something that George Orwell had written in a ...
On Tuesday, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, desperate for Trump’s endorsement as he seeks reelection, tried to show some MAGA muscle ...
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said he believes the Supreme Court will rule against Trump's tariff policy if the case reaches ...