You can trust the jobs report, Labor Department workers urge public

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She is a member of the Stop DOL Cuts coalition, which is a group of former Labor Department employees advocating for current department staff. Their statement comes about a month after President Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following a weak July jobs report. The current Labor Department employees called McEntarfer’s firing alarming and said she should be reinstated. Friday’s jobs report shows the U.S. added just 22,000 jobs in August – far less than anticipated. “The public doesn’t have to guess whether the job numbers are real.”By midafternoon Friday, Trump had not commented directly on the August jobs numbers.