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Trump's pick to lead economic data agency floats ending monthly jobs report
It raised new alarm about the future of an agency that tracks how the economy of the world's richest country is faring.
Jobs data blasted by Trump seen by Fed officials 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 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 ...
Trump nominates conservative economist to head agency that compiles jobs, inflation data
President Donald Trump has nominated E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to head the agency ...
Here’s how Trump’s BLS commissioner pick has criticized the BLS
Hours before President Donald Trump fired former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer this month, E.J.
Two Trump-appointed economists—and longtime friends—are clashing over Trump’s jobs data
William Beach, who Stephen Moore calls a “good friend,” said Trump's numbers shared during his Oval Office presser were “the ...
Jobs data triggered Trump, but Fed officials saw it not as rigged, but as reason to cut
The very data that caused President Donald Trump to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he did not like the July employment report, calling it "rigged," is being taken as serious ...
Trump Promised a Golden Age. Then a Montana Lumber Plant Closed Down.
Anger over well-paid manufacturing jobs giving way to lower-wage work fueled President Trump’s rise. With his movement now in ...