President Trump fired the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official on Friday, after the agency issued a weak jobs report. Plus, how U.S. tariffs could sink Lesotho’s textile industry.
On Friday, President Trump fired the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official after the bureau issued a weak jobs report. The report had also revised earlier estimates of job creation in May and June down by 258,000. The president claimed the numbers were being manipulated. Julia Coronado, founder and president of Macropolicy Perspectives and a professor at UT Austin, joins us to talk about it.
The African country of Lesotho initially faced tariffs from the Trump administration of 50%. That's now down to 15%. But it could still be enough to sink that country's textile industry, which accounts for the vast majority of its manufacturing exports. The BBC's Shingai Nyoka filed this report from the country's capital.
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