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The president attempted to tell a different story about the U.S. economy than what the latest job report revealed. President ...
Black unemployment has surged to over 7% under Trump's policies, causing financial insecurity and employment uncertainty for ...
PolitiFact Ruling: Pants on Fire. The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day ...
Just like the workers on his construction projects, Donald Trump wrote the Black community a bad check during the campaign,” ...
"Black workers are often last hired, first fired," said Angela Hanks, chief of policy programs of The Century Foundation.
The Labor Department's recent report is concerning because Black folks are often the first to be hit by economic downturns in the nation.
The president was primed and ready to take a swipe at late-night television, hosted programs that he perceives as The Enemy.
Here's why firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner could undermine trust in indicators the government releases and ...
This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.
Trump's replacement of labor statistics head after bad report shouldn't hurt integrity of jobs numbers. But there may still ...
The number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits for at least one week climbed to its highest point since November 2021, according to a Washington Post report on Labor Department figures ...