All posts tagged "Bureau Of Labor Statistics"

Economist Stephen Moore, who served as senior economic advisor during Donald Trump's first term, appeared on CNN to support the president's claim that the latest job report put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics was "rigged" against him.

Trump fired BLS head Erika McEntarfer over the lackluster jobs report last week, and posted to Truth Social Monday claiming, "Last weeks [sic] Job’s [sic] Report was RIGGED, just like the numbers prior to the Presidential Election were Rigged. That’s why, in both cases, there was massive, record setting revisions, in favor of the Radical Left Democrats."

Moore agreed that the numbers coming out are "just not accurate, and there are a lot of reasons for that, but they're getting worse and worse in each passing month and each passing year."...

Political analyst David Chalian practically spat fire Friday on CNN after President Donald Trump announced he was canning a labor official because he didn't like the job numbers she released Friday.

Trump posted to Truth Social that Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of Labor Statistics and a Biden appointee, published an "inaccurate" report revealing weaker-than-expected job numbers for May and June.

"There are two things here, just stepping back for a second, that I think are pretty clear," Chalian began. "One, Donald Trump's kind of giving away the fact that this is not a healthy, robust, growing economy at the moment. It's a weakening economy, and he's freaked out about it, right? I mean, just by the behavior."...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The percentage of workers represented by a union dipped slightly in 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday, as organized labor came under attack in states once considered union strongholds, including Wisconsin and Ohio.

In three straight recent weekly addresses, Republicans have asserted that "excessive government regulations" are keeping businesses from creating jobs.

In the mind of government critic George Will, a decline in the number of public jobs is actually a positive thing for the American economy.

NAPERVILLE, Ill (Reuters) - When Matthew Burrell left the Army after eight years of service, he landed a job as a public relations contractor in Iraq. With a salary of $170,000, he figured military experience had finally paid off.