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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, ...

U.S. added just 73,000 jobs in July and numbers for prior months were revised much lower

Job growth totaled 73,000 for the month, above the June total of 14,000 but below even the meager Dow Jones estimate for a ...

Trump now claims July jobs report 'was RIGGED'

President Trump on Monday took to social media to claim "Last week's Job's Report was RIGGED, just like the numbers prior to ...

Employers added 73,000 jobs in July, falling short of forecasts

Employers across the U.S. added 73,000 jobs in July, a slowdown from previous months and a sign the labor market is ...

Trump fires a senior official over jobs numbers

President Donald Trump has fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he accused of ...

Trump calls fired BLS commissioner's job numbers the 'biggest miscalculations in over 50 years'

U.S. President Donald Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of faking employment data to all-time highs before the ...

Contentious July jobs report confirms the U.S. economy is slowing sharply. Here’s why

The weakness in job growth points to an economy that may be slowing even more than some of the traditional metrics are showing.

Steve Moore warns job creation numbers are ‘increasingly unreliable’ amid weak July report

Former Trump economic advisor Steve Moore discusses the July jobs report and President Donald Trump’s efforts to make a new ...

Here comes the July jobs report. The unemployment rate is the ‘main number you have to look at now,’ Fed’s Powell says.

The Federal Reserve won’t cut interest rates until it sees how inflation and job creation respond to higher tariffs. The next ...