A: Hey there! Did you catch the news lately?
B: Nah, what's up?

A: So Trump just fired the guy in charge of the Labor Department because he says the job market numbers were messed up!
B: No way! What happened to the figures?

A: It looks like the numbers for jobs created in May and June got slashed pretty hard. Originally, they said there were 144,000 jobs in May and 147,000 in June, but now it's only 19,000 and 14,000!
B: That's a big change! What does Trump think about this?

A: Well, he thinks these numbers were deliberately altered to make him look bad. He tweeted that the figures are "rigged" and "a total scam." He doesn't have any proof of manipulation though.
B: Sounds a bit suspicious, huh? Anyway, who is going to replace this guy?

A: Trump mentioned he wants someone more competent and qualified for the job instead.
B: I see. So it's a pretty big deal because these job market statistics help decide business conditions in the US, right?

A: Exactly! And the Federal Reserve pays attention to them when deciding their monetary policies.
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US President Donald Trump announced on social media on Friday that he had given an order to fire a Labor Department official over major downward revisions of job market data.



Trump's decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner is in response to the figures released Friday. They include massive downward corrections of earlier data for the increase in workers in non-farm sectors. He called it "a major mistake."



The bureau corrected the number of jobs created in May from 144,000 to 19,000, and that in June from 147,000 to 14,000. The net downward revision totaled 258,000. The department said the scale of the correction is larger than usual.



Trump wrote in a separate social media post, "In my opinion, today's Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad." He added that job numbers were massively revised downward also right after the presidential election in 2024. He called the revisions "A TOTAL SCAM," without giving evidence of manipulation.



Trump said the bureau chief will be replaced with "someone much more competent and qualified."



The job market statistics is one of the key economic indexes in the US to determine the state of the labor market and business conditions. The Federal Reserve places importance on it to decide its monetary policies.
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Quiz 1:
Trump's decision to fire a Labor Department official is in response to job market data revisions made on which date?
A. Thursday
B. Friday
C. Saturday
D. Sunday

[Answer block]
Answers: Quiz 1: B

Quiz 2:
In Trump's statement, he accused the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner of making a mistake with which set of data?
A. Data from May
B. Data from June
C. Data from July
D. Data from August

[Answer block]
Answers: Quiz 2: A

Quiz 3:
Trump believes that the job numbers released in which year's presidential election were massively revised downward?
A. 2016
B. 2020
C. 2024 (presidential election that has not yet occurred)
D. 2032

[Answer block]
Answers: Quiz 3: C