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Trump taps economist from the Heritage Foundation to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics

President Donald Trump nominated conservative economist E.J. Antoni to fill the top spot at the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

Trump says he's nominating E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner

President Trump, who claimed former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated jobs data, said Antoni would release ...

White House says plan is for BLS to continue publishing jobs report

Asked if the Bureau of Labor Statistics will continue to publish the monthly jobs report, White House Press Secretary ...

Trump’s BLS pick is an ‘extreme partisan’ with no technical understanding of data: Jason Furman

President Trump says he will nominate E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the new ...

Trump nominates Bureau of Labor Statistics critic to replace fired agency head

E.J. Antoni, a staunch critic of the agency, had emerged in recent days as a favorite candidate among some influential Trump ...

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.” ...

Inflation data to draw scrutiny after BLS firing, $2.1-trillion TIPS market at risk

Monthly U.S. inflation data is under increased scrutiny after President Donald Trump removed the head of the U.S. Bureau of ...