President Trump fired the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official after new data showed U.S. hiring slowed sharply this ...

Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after disappointing July jobs report, claiming the ...

The statistical agency's problems predate Trump, but experts say it can't be easily fixed without more resources ...

To build trust in government data, President Donald Trump should not fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. He ...

Yet with no basis in fact, Trump charged that Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of labor statistics, “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” Then he ordered her fired and ...

Donald Trump isn’t the first president to struggle over official data, with agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But ...

President Donald Trump is still fuming about Friday’s weak jobs numbers and downward revisions. After calling the report rigged, he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. American consumers ...

Staffing shortfalls have forced the BLS to stop collecting prices in Lincoln, Neb.; Provo, Utah; and Buffalo, N.Y. In the rest of the country, the bureau is also missing an average of about 15% of the ...

The day will likely come when Americans are suffering because Republicans like Banks cared more about their careers than constituents.

U.S. stock futures rose, the dollar was steady and two- and 10-year Treasury yields edged higher as Trump moves to make some key hires at the Fed and Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...

Economists and Wall Street investors have long considered the job figures reliable, with share prices and bond yields often reacting sharply when they are released.