{"id":396134,"date":"2025-09-04T02:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396134\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:43:17","slug":"new-data-shows-u-s-job-market-still-sucks-after-trump-fired-bureau-of-labor-statistics-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396134\/","title":{"rendered":"New Data Shows U.S. Job Market Still Sucks After Trump Fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump might regret sacking his last Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) chief because the new numbers are in and they\u2019re just as bad as before.<\/p>\n

Released Wednesday, the agency\u2019s latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover report recorded just 7.18 million employment listings for July. It\u2019s only the second time they\u2019ve dipped below 7.2 million since the last quarter of 2020, at the height of the COVID pandemic. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s also lower than even independent economists, polled by Dow Jones, had forecasted, fueling widespread concerns of a weakening job market amid the Trump administration\u2019s turbulent handling of the economy and ongoing trade war against much of the rest of the planet.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Trump booted Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer out of her job last month after a poor July jobs report. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics\/Handout via Reuters <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a turning point for the labor market,\u201d Heather Long, an economist with the Navy Federal Credit Union, told CNBC Wednesday<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s yet another crack,\u201d she went on, adding the new figures were \u201cunderscoring how this job market is frozen and it\u2019s difficult for anyone to get a job right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PresidentTrump nominated E.J. Antoni, a chief architect of the controversial Project 2025 blueprint for a second MAGA presidency, as McEntarfer’s replacement. @realDonaldTrump <\/p>\n

The latest stats of course come after Trump controversially fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer<\/a> last month. Her dismissal came after the agency released numbers showing employers had only generated 73,000 new jobs for July, well short of the 109,000 outlined in White House forecasts, and revised its estimate of employment stats for May and June down by more than 250,000. <\/p>\n

At the time, Trump slammed McEntarfer for having \u201cRIGGED\u201d those numbers \u201cto make the Republicans, and ME, look bad,\u201d in the face of massive backlash<\/a> to what represented the biggest non-COVID-related drop in more than four decades.<\/p>\n

His decision to replace McEntarfer with E.J. Antoni\u2014chief economist at the ultraconservative Heritage Foundation, and a leading architect of the think tank\u2019s controversial Project 2025 blueprint for a second MAGA White House\u2014also drew fire. <\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal wrote in an August editorial<\/a> that Antoni \u201cwill have to take off his MAGA hat if he wants to ensure that the public and markets can trust BLS data,\u201d given widespread concern that the longevity of McEntarfer\u2019s replacement may well depend on producing results the White House finds more agreeable.<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump might regret sacking his last Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) chief because the new numbers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[35906,51,3686,1700,36173,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-396134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bureau-of-labor-statistics","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-donald-j-trump","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-maga","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115143731141165288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}