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‘Underlying motives’: Why Trump’s BLS pick is in for a fight  Politico Trump’s pick to lead labor stats agency could pause monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns  Fox Business Opinion | Why Economists Are Worried About Trump’s B.L.S. Changes  The New York Times Here’s how Trump’s BLS commissioner pick has criticized the BLS  CNN Will Trump Get His Potemkin Statistics?  The Atlantic Source link

“Utterly unqualified”: Trump BLS pick gets panned by conservative economists  Axios Trump’s pick for BLS commissioner floated suspending the monthly jobs report before apparently backing off  CNN Trump nominates conservative economist to head agency that compiles jobs, inflation data  AP News Trump Advisers Consider Changes to How Government Collects Jobs Data  The Wall Street Journal Trump nominates Bureau of Labor Statistics critic to replace …

WASHINGTON (AP) — “Depressing.” “CRAZY!!” That’s how staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics reacted after President Donald Trump fired its commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, after a dismal jobs report issued Aug. 1 undermined the White House’s claims of an economic boom. The emails obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act suggest an agency with little of …

Trump’s pick for BLS commissioner endorses suspending monthly jobs reports  The Washington Post Trump’s pick to lead labor stats agency could pause monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns  Fox Business Trump’s nominee to oversee jobs, inflation data faces shower of criticism  The Hill Trump’s pick for BLS commissioner floated suspending the monthly jobs report before apparently backing off  CNN Trump to nominate E.J. Antoni …

President Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics is suggesting that the agency suspend its monthly jobs report, an economic staple that is relied upon by the Federal Reserve and U.S. businesses to gauge the health of the economy.  In an interview on Fox Business on Monday ahead of his nomination, E.J. Antoni criticized the monthly employment report as …

Trump’s BLS nominee suggests suspending jobs report  Axios Trump’s pick for BLS commissioner suggests suspending the monthly jobs report  CNN Trump Names EJ Antoni New BLS Commissioner  The New York Times Trump to nominate EJ Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner  NBC News Trump taps conservative economist to lead statistics agency  NPR Source link

Facebook Tweet Email Link EJ Antoni, nominated by President Donald Trump Monday to become the next commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, suggested that the agency should suspend its monthly jobs report, claiming it is unreliable and frequently overstated. Antoni, in an interview with Fox Business News that took place before his nomination and was published Tuesday, said the …

MARTIN BERTRAND/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images MARTIN BERTRAND/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images After President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economists and statisticians across the board were horrified. Because the firing raises the spectre of potential manipulation – and it raises the worry that, in the future, the numbers won’t be as trustworthy. So: we looked …

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump had a special guest in the Oval Office on Thursday: the right-wing economist Stephen Moore, who came bearing charts purportedly depicting bogus job numbers during Joe Biden’s presidency. It was the latest White House effort to justify Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a bad jobs report last Friday. …

Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump claims, without a shred of evidence, that the government’s premiere economic data operation nefariously engineered negative statistics “for political purposes.” His top economic advisers don’t share that view, even as they continue to defend his stunning – and largely impulsive – decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after …