New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- US President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), on August 1.

"We need people we can trust," President Trump said after he told officials to fire Erika McEntarfer, hours after a report showed US job growth cooled sharply over the last three months.

Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump's unhappiness with Friday's jobs report. She had served as BLS head for a year and a half.

Eriak McEntarfer's career: McEntarfer's research focuses on job loss, retirement, worker mobility, and wage rigidity. She had previously worked at the Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies, the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Poli...