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Former head of BLS dismisses Trump claim of ‘rigged’ jobs report
President Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming that last week’s jobs report “was rigged” without providing any evidence. Former Labor Statistics officials say that the commissioner typically doesn’t have a role in preparing the monthly jobs report.
In Rejecting the Jobs Report, Trump Follows His Own Playbook of Discrediting Unfavorable Data
And on Friday, when the July jobs report revisions showed a distressed economy, Trump had an answer: He fired the official in charge of the data and called the report of a sharp slowdown in hiring “phony.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.
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