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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.” ...

Bank of America's CEO responds to weak jobs report that spurred Trump firing of BLS chief

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said there must be better ways to collect employment data after President Trump fired the ...

White House says plan is for BLS to continue publishing jobs report

Asked if the Bureau of Labor Statistics will continue to publish the monthly jobs report, White House Press Secretary ...

Trump's BLS commissioner pick suggests suspending monthly jobs reports

E.J. Antoni, Trump's pick as commissioner of Labor Statistics, recently endorsed halting monthly jobs reports until the methodology is changed.

Massive revisions shook the jobs report. Tuesday’s inflation data could get cloudy, too

The next batch of inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was already shaping up to be a high-profile affair due ...

Jobs data triggered Trump, but Fed officials saw it not as rigged, but as reason to cut

The data that caused President Donald Trump to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he did not like the ...

Trump's nominee to oversee jobs and inflation data faces shower of criticism

The director of the agency that produces the nation's jobs and inflation data is typically a mild-mannered technocrat, often with extensive experience in statistical agencies, with little public ...

Economists across the political spectrum question Trump labor statistics nominee’s credentials

President Trump has selected E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the next ...