COLUMBUS, Ohio — President Donald Trump might not have liked the numbers on Aug. 1, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy had added just 73,000 jobs in July and downwardly revised the two previous months by a combined 258,000 .

But his reaction — to fire the head of the agency that reported those numbers — will have a bad effect on the Ohio economy, a big majority of a panel of economists said.

Some economists had worried that massive tariffs levied by Trump, combined with mass deportations and deep cuts to the federal workforce and the social safety net would drag down the economy. That appeared not to be happening, possibly because those potential drags were being offset by the growth of efficiency due to artificial intelligence .

Then the

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