{"id":47354,"date":"2025-08-06T07:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47354\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T07:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:19:15","slug":"opinion-social-securitys-cola-is-now-at-risk-after-trumps-shock-firing-at-the-labor-department-marketwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47354\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Social Security\u2019s COLA is now at risk after Trump\u2019s shock firing at the Labor Department – MarketWatch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion: Social Security\u2019s COLA is now at risk after Trump\u2019s shock firing at the Labor Department<\/a>  MarketWatchUS labour data agency was teetering even before Donald Trump fired its chief<\/a>  Financial TimesI was the US labor secretary. Trump\u2019s latest firing undermines a key agency | Robert Reich<\/a>  The GuardianWhy were US job numbers which riled Trump revised down by so much?<\/a>  BBCPresident Trump defends sacking of head of US labour stats bureau<\/a>  Channel 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opinion: Social Security\u2019s COLA is now at risk after Trump\u2019s shock firing at the Labor Department  MarketWatchUS labour data…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[26525,84,26526,3673,26537,7840,26527,14268,141,9385,13931,26529,2195,26531,26532,4176,6323,232,7012,26538,26539,26530,1349,26535,26524,6884,4174,4175,26542,26533,26540,306,26528,4272,26543,4839,26534,6322,10907,56,26541,54,55,476,26536],"class_list":["post-47354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-bls","tag-business","tag-cola","tag-commentary","tag-commentary-opinion","tag-community","tag-consumerpriceindex","tag-cpi","tag-donald-trump","tag-economic-news","tag-economic-performance","tag-economic-performance-indicators","tag-employment","tag-employment-unemployment-figures","tag-federal-reserve-survey-data","tag-finance","tag-gcapi","tag-general-news","tag-government-policy","tag-indicators","tag-inflation-figures","tag-inflation-figures-price-indices","tag-insurance","tag-labor-issues","tag-mcentarfer","tag-opinion","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-price-indices","tag-regulation","tag-regulation-government-policy","tag-retirement-planning","tag-social-services","tag-society","tag-society-community","tag-synd","tag-trump","tag-uk","tag-unemployment-figures","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-welfare","tag-welfare-social-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}