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Trump says the Bureau of Labor Statistics orchestrated a ‘scam.’ Here’s how the jobs report really works

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” Yet revisions by the BLS were neither historic nor evidence of corruption.

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Trump fired the BLS chief for a bad jobs report. Here’s how those numbers are gathered

The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.

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Ballmer’s USAFacts warns against politicizing data after Trump fires BLS chief over jobs report

USAFacts, the nonpartisan group founded by Steve Ballmer, warns against politicizing government data after Trump fires the BLS chief over weak jobs numbers, raising concerns about data integrity and economic trust.

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Revisions are a common feature of any jobs report says former BLS commissioner

While the downward revision of May and June payroll growth by 258,000 marked the largest two-month downward revision to the ...

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Two Trump-appointed economists—and longtime friends—are clashing over Trump’s jobs data

William Beach, who Stephen Moore calls a “good friend,” said Trump's numbers shared during his Oval Office presser were “the ...

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Why the B.L.S. Regularly Revises Jobs Data

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...

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