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Trump, Revisions and jobs numbers

How unusual are jobs numbers revisions? According to experts, they're a common feature.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics last week issued a steep downward revision to May and June's hiring numbers, prompting President Trump to call the edits "miscalculations" by the department's commissioner, whom he subsequently fired, in a social media post on Aug. 1.

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Why were US job numbers which riled Trump revised down by so much?

President Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after the department revised down job numbers which he said were "rigged".

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Trump doubles down on claim that jobs numbers are rigged

President Donald Trump continued his diatribe against the July jobs numbers on Monday in a social media post, repeating his accusation that the Bureau of Labor Statistics rigged the numbers.

Trump, BLS and Jobs

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Trump fired the BLS chief for a bad jobs report. Here’s how those numbers are gathered

The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.

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Trump calls fired BLS commissioner's job numbers the 'biggest miscalculations in over 50 years'

U.S. President Donald Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of faking employment data to all-time highs before the U.S. presidential election.

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Trump's Former Labor Statistics Chief Says There's 'No Way' Jobs Numbers Were 'Rigged'

William Beach criticized the president for the shock firing of Erika McEntarfer, his successor at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Beyond the Jobs Numbers: A Deeper Look at U.S. Employment Trends

Kory Kantenga, Head of Economics Americas at LinkedIn, unpacks Friday’s jobs numbers, labor force trends, and signals of a ...

Trump fires labor official over weak jobs number, orders criminal probes of past opponents

Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after disappointing July jobs report, claiming the ...

Why Jobs Numbers Were Revised Sharply Downward for June, May

Job market data get revised every month. But rarely are the revisions as negative as the ones in Friday’s employment report.

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Trump's claims of 'rigged' jobs numbers challenged by CNBC host

CNBC news anchor Joe Kernen confronted President Trump over firing the top labor statistics chief, saying it "undermines confidence in the system." ...

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Fact check: No evidence for Trump's claims of ‘rigged' or ‘phony' job numbers

Hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data showing slow job growth for July and prior months, ...

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The real problem with America's jobs data

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...

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Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once claimed the jobs numbers were faked. How did that turn out?

Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once claimed the jobs numbers were faked. How did that turn out? In today’s CEO Daily: ...

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

Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after jobs report. In a Truth Social post, the U.S. president accused BLS ...

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