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Yesterday, Trump announced that he will nominate E.J. Antoni as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Antoni has repeatedly and unfairly attacked the agency he’d be set to run ...
“Until it is corrected, the BLS should suspend issuing the monthly job reports but keep publishing the more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data,” he told Fox Business. “Major decision-makers ...
Donald Trump named EJ Antoni, chief economist of the conservative Heritage Foundation, to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
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U.S. inflation was unchanged in July as rising prices for some imported goods were balanced by falling gas and grocery prices, leaving overall prices modestly higher than a year ago.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has issued its first consumer inflation report since President Donald Trump fired the agency's ...
President Donald Trump said Monday that he has nominated E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation ...
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Antoni has also echoed a frequent Trump criticism of the BLS, claiming that recent massive annual revisions – including a revision that showed 589,000 fewer jobs were created in 2024 than initially ...
Trump also accused McEntarfer of “rigging” jobs data to make him look “bad” after July’s numbers came in soft and fired her shortly after Bannon and Antoni’s conversation.
Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni, tapped to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics, calls monthly jobs data unreliable ...