President Trump, unhappy with the latest economic data, fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's bad news.

President Trump is right to raise doubts about the motivations of the government officials tasked with collecting and releasing economic data. But it would also ...

Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...

Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...

Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...

While there is much at play in determining the country’s employment levels, there is much lower immigration now than when ...

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...

The data influences how much people pay in taxes, receive in retirement benefits and even how much they earn on some ...

Trump had previously touted the May and June jobs reports as proof he was 'revitalizing the American economy.' The revised data bursts those boasts.

Why do revisions to the jobs report happen? Today on the show, we speak with a former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics about why revisions occur and how we should interpret the monthly ...

Joe Kernen confronted Donald Trump, telling him that firing a labor statistics official after an underwhelming jobs report "undermines confidence." ...

Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.