One of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers strongly suggested Wednesday that an economic report was “manipulated politically” to help Barack Obama win reelection in 2012. Kevin Hassett, ...

The BLS jobs survey is widely considered by economists to be robust. It samples more than 100,000 businesses and government ...

While the president’s claims of bias are baseless, they are still doing significant harm. When official economic statistics are labelled as “fake news”, it undermines the BLS’s credibility and ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump addressed a potential fourth presidential campaign during a CNBC interview, answering whether he'd ...

The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...

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

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Aug. 1, 2025, the day a poor jobs report ...

President Trump claims the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised a 2024 jobs report downward after the election. The opposite is true.

Yesterday, the president of the United States appeared without explanation on the roof of the White House, walked aimlessly ...

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 ...