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In rejecting the jobs report, Trump follows his own playbook of discrediting unfavorable data

When the coronavirus surged during President Donald Trump’s first term, he called for a simple fix: Limit the amount of ...

US labour data agency was teetering even before Donald Trump fired its chief

Donald Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has exposed deepening fissures within a data agency vital ...

Trump Says Bessent Won’t Be Fed Nominee, Doubles Down on ‘Rigged’ Job Data Claim

President Donald Trump doubled down on claims that the Bureau of Labor Statistics had “rigged” jobs data during a Tuesday ...

Donald Trump says he doesn’t trust jobs data, but Wall Street and economists do

Economists and Wall Street investors have long considered the job figures reliable, with share prices and bond yields often ...

The jobs report that enraged Trump was flashing a recession warning sign

The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in ...