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Aug 1 2025
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Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report
By: jbr

President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hours after a stunning government report showed that hiring had slowed down significantly over the past three months.

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Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report

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Trump’s rewriting of reality on jobs numbers is chilling...

Submitted by jbr on Mon, 2025/08/04 - 7:21am.

And when countries don’t firewall official data, they risk ending up like Argentina or Greece, where the invention of rosy statistics masked economic malaise and sparked financial crises. Or China, where fantastical official figures designed to bolster the regime’s credibility fostered corruption — and benefited the US by comparison.

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

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