President Donald Trump ordered the firing of Erica Groshen, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), after the BLS reported that the U.S. economy added only 73,000 jobs in July, well below estimates, and revised May and June job numbers downward by over 200,000. Trump accused Groshen of producing biased reports and claimed the numbers were rigged. Matt Gagnon criticized Trump’s actions, arguing that the BLS’s job reports are not partisan and are based on a rigorous, transparent system. Gagnon emphasized that the revisions are often more accurate and that Trump’s actions undermine the integrity of government data.
The American job market continues to show surprising strength, shrugging off the high costs of the Iran war. Employers added 172,000 jobs in May – roughly double what forecasters had expected – and the unemployment rate remained at a low 4.3%.
A Colorado court reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics on Thursday in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was pinned down by police and injected with a fatal dose of ketamine.
The state of Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, claiming the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while concealing serious risks.
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