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Trump picks conservative BLS critic to lead BLS
Trump fired the previous BLS commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, 11 days ago after a weak July jobs report that he baselessly ...
Trump was correct to fire BLS chief after data became ‘increasingly unreliable,’ says former Trump advisor
Economist Steve Moore discusses President Donald Trump’s economic policy and ‘correct’ firing of a Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
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Trump’s Firing of BLS Chief Is Bound to Backfire
What happens next can only go wrong for him and the U.S. Here’s what experts and critics are arguing in the aftermath.
In Firing the BLS Chief, Trump Escalates His Administration’s War on Data
But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...
Firing the BLS chief was a petulant move, says former CEA chair Greg Mankiw
Greg Mankiw, Harvard University economics professor and former CEA chairman, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the fallout from ...
Lessons from Argentina: Trump’s firing of BLS chief sparks concerns about data integrity
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Trump Fired the BLS Chief. He Was Right–But for All the Wrong Reasons
President Donald Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, stating, without ...
Trump’s BLS pick is an ‘extreme partisan’ with no technical understanding of data: Jason Furman
President Trump says he will nominate E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the new ...