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House Democrats asked for a congressional hearing on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer.
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 US jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in ...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...
Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
Trump on Monday said he would be "substantially raising" tariffs on India, after imposing a 25% tariff rate against the ...
By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that ...
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...
Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.