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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 ...

Why Trump taping a BLS skeptic to lead agency is 'just a very bad idea'

President Trump says he is nominating E.J. Antoni to be the new Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner. Antoni has been a ...

‘Crazy!!’: How Labor Statistics staff reacted to Trump firing commissioner after dismal jobs report

Staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics called President Donald Trump's firing of its commissioner “depressing” and “CRAZY!!” ...

‘The world is not going to trust our data’: Trump’s BLS pick sparks alarm

Donald Trump’s sacking of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ boss after a grim jobs report earlier this month sparked investor fears that he was politicising the world’s most closely watched economic ...
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After firing of BLS chief, Lutnick tells federal statisticians that independence is ‘nonsense’

The independence of federal statistical agencies is “nonsense,” the head of the Commerce Department and one of President ...

Trump’s nominee to oversee jobs, inflation data faces shower of criticism

Trump has selected E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the next commissioner at the ...

Economists stunned at Trump’s “completely unqualified” BLS pick: “Disastrously terrible”

The post Economists stunned at Trump’s “completely unqualified” BLS pick: “Disastrously terrible” appeared first on Salon.com ...

Inflation held firm in July amid Trump tariff push

Consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in July, according to data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), as the ...