Hi, Brian Lairer here.

Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend,

three of our favorite segments from the week,

packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m.

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Good morning again, everyone.

With us now, former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

Among our topics, President Trump's firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics

after Friday's disappointing jobs report, Trump said it was rigged but cited no evidence.

Sound familiar?

This is widely being received as an effect of Trump's tariffs.

And also, some commentators are saying, we're now more like China.

Maybe you heard a version of this on Marketplace last night.

The politics determine the official jobs numbers rather than the other way around.

So the reliability of U.S. economic data

is no longer a global bedrock, potentially. We'll sample from Trump economics advisor Kevin

has its explanation on Meet the Press and get Robert Reich's reaction. But Rice also has a new

book out today, a memoir of his life and work

in labor economics and how he got to where we are economically in this country today and how he

proposes to improve things. The book is called Coming Up Short, A Memoir of My America. Robert Rice has

recently retired as professor of public policy at UC Berkeley,

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