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Canning the labor chief will make jobs statistics less trustworthy, but authoritarians thrive in a world of blurred fact and ...

Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi warned that the U.S. economy is on the precipice of recession as weak jobs data and rising ...

Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer is out because President Donald Trump didn't like the July jobs report.

The other key release that is published by the BLS is the consumer price index that’s published about two to three weeks into the month following, and it is the basis for the inflation gauge that the ...

In normal times, the first Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report.

The US dollar's July rally came to an abrupt end last Friday and continues to mostly consolidate as new developments are awaited. Click to read.

The July jobs report released last Friday wasn’t pretty. It showed weaker than anticipated U.S. job growth in July, and there were substantial downward revisions of jobs numbers for May and June as ...

The full story is more complicated. Trump is broadly right on the question of how much leverage the need for foreign access ...

In the 21st century, U.S. economic data has become embedded in the life of the nation. It determines increases in Social Security benefits for retirees, influences the purchases of auto and home ...

Michael R. Strain explains why a robust economy depends on public confidence in the integrity of official data.

President Trump is right to raise doubts about the motivations of the government officials tasked with collecting and ...