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Inflation on Oahu has settled back down close to a pretty comfortable spot compared with a year ago. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday reported that prices for a broad sampling of goods ...
Political pressure from the Trump administration on government statisticians and private forecasters raises concerns about data integrity and potential bias. Recent actions, including criticism of the ...
President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended releasing monthly jobs reports amid accuracy concerns, emphasizing the need for ...
The BLS has failed to modernize, and its methods are deficient. The jobs number and its revisions do not meet accepted ...
Donald Trump got some positive economic data — even if dissing the July jobs report and firing the BLS head may have cost him ...
Political interference in economic data threatens the business foundation that companies depend on for planning, forecasting, ...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was pressed on Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggested the agency suspend its monthly jobs report.
Bureau of Labor Statistics staff won’t sit by quietly if the new chief tries to manipulate data Trump’s pick to take over at ...
E.J. Antoni's selection threatens to bring a new level of politicization to what has long been a nonpartisan agency widely ...
Trump nominated Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni to lead the BLS less than two weeks after firing the agency's former commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, in response to weaker-than-expected job ...
With inflation easing and the labor market cooling, the risks of keeping policy too tight are mounting. The CME Group now ...