Yahoo

‘Give me a break’: Trump says he hired Fed chair Powell as a ‘favor’ after CNBC host presses him on labor bureau firing

President Donald Trump defended some of his more controversial recent decisions, such as firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while distancing himself from past choices he’s grown unhappy with, such as hiring Federal Reserve Chair Jerome ...
World Socialist Web Site

Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner following negative July jobs report

On Friday, President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), only hours after the release of new monthly jobs data that showed a continued weakening of the US labor market. Erika L. McEntarfer, former ...
CNN

Markets slump on tariffs and jobs data as Trump fires labor bureau statistics chief

Our live coverage of tariffs and the July jobs report has ended. Scroll through the posts below to read about today’s developments. The National Association for Business Economics slammed President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
Yahoo

Bureau of Labor Statistics tells the US what’s up with the economy – Trump firing its top official may undercut trust in its data

Isador Lubin, chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, presents data to a Senate committee in 1937. Library of Congress Founded in 1884, the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes monthly and annual data about American consumers and workers. Historically ...
The Heritage Foundation

The Bureau of Labor Statistics Needs Reform

Many government agencies are little known to most Americans, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been one of them until recently. That all changed when President Trump fired the director for issuing “rigged” statistics and several massive, after-the ...