Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...

President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top labor statistics official over the weekend while igniting a political firestorm ...

President Trump said he ordered his administration to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after the ...

Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers ...

President Trump fired the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official after new data showed U.S. hiring slowed sharply this ...

Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump’s unhappiness with Friday’s jobs ...

President Donald Trump defended his decision in firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, claiming the ...

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

The head of the agency that compiles the closely watched monthly jobs report usually toils in obscurity, but on Friday, the current holder of that job was loudly fired by the president of the United ...

President Trump said he directed his team to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer following a dismal jobs ...

William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing "baseless" and "damaging" in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...

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