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Thanks to cuts in federal government employment, America’s own economic data are becoming increasingly unreliable. As the New York Times reported late last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is ...
The pandemic has exposed the shortcomings in how we measure everything, from inflation to GDP to jobs, says Helen Thomas ...
In a move that forms part of his drive to establish a presidential dictatorship, Trump justified the sacking with bogus claims that the numbers had been “rigged” to make him and the Republicans look ...
There's a connection between the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and Trump's firing of the head of a key economic statistics ...
The clock is ticking as Donald Trump gets set to make two key appointments that pose a serious risk to America’s economy.
Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
Trump on Monday said he would be "substantially raising" tariffs on India, after imposing a 25% tariff rate against the ...
Our government uses the fig leaf of “cultural exchange” to flood the summer job market with tens of thousands of student ...
When I heard the news the authoritarian imbecile had fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics director for the crime of factual math, I dimly recalled something that George Orwell had written in a ...