President #Trump ordered the firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hours after a stunning government jobs report showed that hiring had slowed down significantly over the past three months.
Due to the scale of the U.S. #economy and response rates to BLS surveys, there can often be lags in #data collection. But that lag does not imply any wrongdoing or manipulation.
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