bls jobs report - Search News

News

Trump, BLS and jobs

Trump fires BLS commissioner after weak jobs report and baseless claim of 'faked' stats

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday after a new jobs report showed a major slowdown of hiring in recent months. In a social media post, Trump volleyed sharp criticism and baseless accusations at Erika McEntarfer, a Biden appointee who was confirmed by the Senate in 2024.

Fox Business on MSN · 13h

Bank of America's CEO responds to weak jobs report that spurred Trump firing of BLS chief

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said there must be better ways to collect employment data after President Trump fired the BLS commissioner following a weak jobs report.

KARE 11 on MSN · 3h

Economists alarmed by Trump's firing of BLS commissioner and claims about 'concocted' jobs report

Economists say firing a top official for revisions to a jobs report sends a bad message and could destroy trust in data that's central to the economy.

Trump says he doesn't trust jobs data

The Associated Press - Busine… · 54m

How reliable is the jobs data? Economists and Wall Street still trust it

Most economists say that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a nonpolitical agency staffed by people obsessed with getting the numbers right. The only political appointee is the commissioner, who doesn’t see the data until it’s finalized, two days before it is issued to the public.

MSNBC · 1d

Economist slams Trump for undermining job data credibility

President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner, slamming her for a weak jobs report and claiming she ‘rigged’ the data. Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein joins Erielle Reshef to explain how such a move undermines U.

Axios Sneak Peek on MSN · 1d

U.S. jobs data "very unreliable," top Trump econ adviser says

The labor statistics chief that President Trump fired Friday is a "terrific person, but the jobs data her agency produced has become "very unreliable," National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said Sunday.

7hon MSN

The ‘Trust America’ Trade Is Under Threat. Why the Jobs Report, BLS Firing, and Fed Resignation Sparked Market Jitters.

A so-called “sell America” trade, which led in part to the weakest 7-month stretch for the dollar in five decades, developed ...

17h

S&P 500 Momentum Reverses As Fed Signals No Rate Cut, Bad Jobs Report

The S&P 500 (SPX) saw its upward momentum reverse during the trading week ending Friday, 1 August 2025. Click to read.

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 ...

Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you

Show inaccessible results