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Trump says he doesn’t trust jobs data

5 things to know about the jobs report controversy that has economists defending government data

Response rates to government surveys have plummeted since COVID, but experts say that doesn't mean the numbers are wrong despite Trump's claims.

MSNBC · 1d

Trump defends U.S. economy with charts after jobs reports showed warning signs

Are there cracks in the labor market? President Trump defended his economy with a series of charts in the Oval Office after a jobs report showed warning signs of a struggling economy. Axios Senior Markets Reporter Madison Mills and former Chief Strategist for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign Matthew Dowd join Chris Jansing to break it all down.

Philadelphia Inquirer · 1d

Trump says he doesn’t trust the jobs data, but Wall Street and economists do

The recent revisions downward were unusually large, but there are many factors that require updating numbers, and rigging the data would be difficult.

Trump, bureau of labor statistics and McEntarfer

NBC News on MSN · 7d

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report

Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers "for political purposes."

Associated Press News on MSN · 8d

Who is Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner fired by Trump?

Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that angered President Donald Trump.

POLITICO on MSN · 6d

Former Trump statistics chief slams Friday firing of Erika McEntarfer

Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers are assembled.

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The jobs report is a big deal. Trump’s response is an even bigger one.

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a jobs report that upended the narrative pundits, journalists, government ...

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Trump fired BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a weak July jobs report showed only 73,000 jobs added

Donald Trump has fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, today, accusing her of ...

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Who Is Erika McEntarfer? Trump Fires Bureau Of Labor Statistics Commissioner Over Jobs Report Dispute

President Donald Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a disappointing July jobs report showed only 73,000 jobs ...

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Erika McEntarfer educational qualification and career path: How an economist rose to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics before being fired by Trump

Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was controversially fired by US President Donald Trump ...

Reed demands probe into Trump’s firing of official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report

PROVIDENCE — US Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a weaker-than-expected ...

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Trump’s war on reality: McEntarfer firing is another authoritarian step

Donald Trump has, since he first returned to the White House in January, been on a steady march towards authoritarianism, and ...

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Editorial: Will we ever trust another jobs report?

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.

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