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Is President Trump's Accusation of Rigging Jobs Numbers Credible?

Season 2025, Ep. 8.4
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Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Budget Lab at Yale, Martha Gimbel, joins Lisa Wexler to talk about the job statistics reporting process, what indicates positive and negative turns in the economy, why it would be incredibly difficult to rig any data from the labor department, and why the firing of Commissioner of Labor Statistics is unprecedented.

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