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

The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in ...

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

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would "shortly" announce his pick for an open seat on the Federal Reserve's ...

In announcing the firing of the government’s chief labor statistician last week, President Trump condemned the works of Erika ...

Hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data showing slow job growth for July and prior months, ...

Faced with a souring economy, the president could change course, but he prefers to fire statisticians and to lie brazenly to ...

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...

CNBC news anchor Joe Kernen confronted President Trump over firing the top labor statistics chief, saying it "undermines ...

When authoritarianism encroaches, apologists often present a strongman’s power grabs as rational — even imperative for the ...

President Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after the department revised down job numbers which ...