After a year of just 181,000 new jobs, January’s 131,000 increase in the U.S. workforce was surprisingly positive. Ben Casselman, The New York Times’ chief economic correspondent, explains the numbers.
Category: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Trump Names ‘Data Nerd’ to Lead Labor Statistics Agency
The decision to nominate Brett Matsumoto, a career government economist, came six months after the president fired the previous commissioner.