Robert Reich: Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief Is Another Example of Trump’s Dislike of Facts

We speak to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about how President Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hours after the agency released a weaker-than-expected jobs report, undermines a key agency. Trump claimed, without offering any evidence, that the numbers were “rigged” in order to make him look bad. The BLS report showed just 73,000 jobs were added in July and that…

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