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In rejecting the jobs report, Trump follows his own playbook of discrediting unfavorable data

Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...

Fact check: No evidence for Trump's claims of ‘rigged' or ‘phony' job numbers

Hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data showing slow job growth for July and prior months, ...

Why were US job numbers which riled Trump revised down by so much?

President Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after the department revised down job numbers which ...

Trump says he doesn't trust the jobs data, but Wall Street and economists do

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...

Trump’s rewriting of reality on jobs numbers is chilling, but it could backfire

When authoritarianism encroaches, apologists often present a strongman’s power grabs as rational — even imperative for the ...

Donald Trump 'In Denial' About Job Figures, Economy—Nate Silver

Nate Silver is the founder of 538 and was one of the most prominent polling experts during last year's presidential election.

Live updates: Global markets mostly gain after Trump’s tariffs and jobs report sent Wall Street tumbling

Global markets bounced back Monday after Wall Street's poor performance Friday following a weak jobs report and U.S.

Larry Summers says Trump's accusations of manipulated jobs numbers are ‘preposterous’

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers blasted President Donald Trump's firing of a top Bureau of Labor Statistics official.