Trump’s Firing of a Statistician Sparks Data and Trust Concerns
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President Trump fired statistician Erika McEntarfer, citing her Biden appointment and recent disappointing jobs data, amid accusations of political bias and conspiracy theories about data manipulation, sparking widespread criticism and concerns over trust in economic statistics.
- How Trump decided to fire a little-known statistician, sparking conspiracy theories about government data CNN
- Trump Fired America’s Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils. The New York Times
- Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright on Trump’s BLS firing and trust in institutions PBS
- Trump’s rewriting of reality on jobs numbers is chilling, but it could backfire CNN
- The jobs data revisions that cost a US government statistician her job Reuters
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