Current and former employees at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau and other agencies say they have confidence in the numbers.
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Current and former employees at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau and other agencies say they have confidence in the numbers.
By Ben Casselman
Can we still trust the data coming out of the Trump administration?
President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has prompted questions about political interference.
Beijing “is really intolerant of economic instability, and so everything gets smoothed,” Derek Scissors of the American…
President Donald Trump, asked Thursday night if he could commit to saying that BLS' upcoming jobs data would be credible,…
Only Fed officials, and not the BLS commissioner, have the power to directly sway the U.S. labor market on a macroscopic level.
The comments are the latest effort by the White House to undercut economic data that does not fit within Trump's political…
Trump administration officials question data amid condemnation of dismissal of Bureau of Labor Statistics head.
