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Donald Trump fired the top jobs data official after a weak report. What does that mean for facts and the future of public ...
Officials are looking at E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, to head jobs-data agency.
The Trump administration is interviewing candidates to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), including E.J. Antoni, ...
William Beach, who Stephen Moore calls a “good friend,” said Trump's numbers shared during his Oval Office presser were “the ...
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Economist Steve Moore discusses President Donald Trump’s economic policy and ‘correct’ firing of a Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after President Donald Trump on Friday fired the official who oversees it. Trump ...
The downside of shooting a messenger for bearing bad news is it tends to isolate a leader from the facts necessary to make informed decisions.
Trump’s reaction to July’s jobs report created a whole new controversy. Can Congress’ new normal be disrupted? Plus, KCRW ...
The president's dismissal of the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics risks making the "gold standard" of information ...
This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.
President Donald Trump claims, without a shred of evidence, that the government’s premiere economic data operation nefariously engineered negative statistics “for political purposes.” ...