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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

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Illustration by Daniel MedinaWhen I was told Friday that President Trump fired the BLS commissioner due to a poor July payroll report (a less-than-expected monthly job add of 73,000 and very large negative two-month revision of 258,000), I waited for a laugh track that never came.He did what? Really?I spent most of the weekend shaking my head and laughing that the president would fire BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer for a lousy Non-Farm Payrol…

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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

It's time to clean house at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but not because of a poor jobs report that Trump says was

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racket.news broke the news in on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.
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