Tag: chief economist
October’s 42,000 jobs quell labor fears for now
Nov. 5 (UPI) -- ADP reported Wednesday that jobs growth for October provided better insight after fears of…
China’s ruling Communist Party meets to map out plans for the next 5 years
HONG KONG (AP) — One of China’s most important meetings begins Monday, as leader Xi Jinping and other…
White House withdraws Antoni’s nomination to lead BLS
By Jasper Ward, Jarrett Renshaw and Bo EricksonWASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration has withdrawn its nomination of conservative…
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…
Trump to nominate longtime skeptic of Bureau of Labor Statistics as new agency head
President Donald Trump announced that he plans to nominate E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at the conservative Heritage…
Maddow Blog | With new labor statistics nominee, Trump heads in a radical and hazardous direction
Up until two weeks ago, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics was a relatively obscure federal office,…