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How unusual are jobs numbers revisions? According to experts, they're a common feature.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics last week issued a steep downward revision to May and June's hiring numbers, prompting ...
Trump doubles down on claim that jobs numbers are rigged
President Donald Trump continued his diatribe against the July jobs numbers on Monday in a social media post, repeating his ...
Trump's Former Labor Statistics Chief Says There's 'No Way' Jobs Numbers Were 'Rigged'
William Beach criticized the president for the shock firing of Erika McEntarfer, his successor at the Bureau of Labor ...
Why Jobs Numbers Were Revised Sharply Downward for June, May
Job market data get revised every month. But rarely are the revisions as negative as the ones in Friday’s employment report.
Trump's claims of 'rigged' jobs numbers challenged by CNBC host
CNBC news anchor Joe Kernen confronted President Trump over firing the top labor statistics chief, saying it "undermines ...
Fact check: No evidence for Trump's claims of ‘rigged' or ‘phony' job numbers
Hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data showing slow job growth for July and prior months, ...
Why were US job numbers which riled Trump revised down by so much?
President Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after the department revised down job numbers which ...
Is there a better system for collecting U.S. job numbers and economic data?
Outsized revisions to economic numbers are somewhat commonplace, though there has been no shortage of skepticism in terms of ...
Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once claimed the jobs numbers were faked. How did that turn out?
Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once claimed the jobs numbers were faked. How did that turn out? In today’s CEO Daily: ...