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Trump picks E.J. Antoni as new Bureau of Labor Statistics head after firing old commissioner amid weak jobs report
President Trump announced E.J. Antoni as his nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Monday, after he fired the ...
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 ...
A Practical Guide to Fixing the Jobs Data Problem
The Bureau of Labor Statistics needs to turn to real-time information as its surveys increasingly go unanswered.
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.” ...
Inflation data to draw scrutiny after BLS firing, $2.1-trillion TIPS market at risk
Monthly U.S. inflation data is under increased scrutiny after President Donald Trump removed the head of the U.S. Bureau of ...
Inflation Up or Down? What About Jobs? The Agency That Should Know Is on the Rocks
Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ leader compounds a yearslong struggle to modernize methods and maintain ...