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White House Defends Firing of Labor Official as Critics Warn of Trust Erosion

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House economic advisers on Sunday defended President Donald Trump's firing of the head of the ...

What really goes on at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Update)

On Friday, we reported on the latest jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which showed weaker than expected growth. On Friday afternoon, President Trump fired the person in charge of ...

CNBC Daily Open: That's not how revisions to jobs numbers work

After U.S. jobs figures for May and June were revised significantly downward by the Bureau of Labor Statistics — slashing a ...

Trump says the Bureau of Labor Statistics orchestrated a ‘scam.’ Here’s how the jobs report really works

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...