Experts worry that the president is emulating autocrats by undermining trust in official statistics
Experts worry that the president is emulating autocrats by undermining trust in official statistics
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The president is eliminating top government statisticians and data collection efforts he doesn’t like, raising alarms about the…
From the firing of the labor statistics chief to plans for a new census, the president’s moves serve to entrench authoritarianism
Trump’s own former statistics chief denounces move as ‘groundless’ and ‘dangerous’. Key US politics stories from Friday 1 August…
The comments are the latest effort by the White House to undercut economic data that does not fit within Trump's political…
The president has ping-ponged between boasts about jobs and crime and attacks on their data sources. Here’s how he is threatening…
President claims July employment figures were ‘rigged’ in latest assault on economic institutions
