The removal of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is unlikely to change government data practices in the near ...

President Donald Trump said that he would fill two key leadership positions with significant oversight of the US economy as ...

Trump has long touted that he helped secure the 2028 Olympics in the U.S. during his first term and has expressed his ...

Though the unemployment rate for the tech industry was largely unchanged in July, demand is soaring for AI and data-focused ...

Since his return to office, President Trump has waged something of a pressure campaign on economic data and the people in charge of delivering it. His firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

Trump’s knee-jerk response to troublesome data is to deny it. He has eliminated climate change and disease statistics that ...

Trump's firing of BLS chief Erika McEntarfer over labor statistics could backfire as a potential recession looms.

President Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner is raising concerns about whether her replacement could manipulate job numbers to work in his favor. The traditionally ...

In announcing the firing of the government’s chief labor statistician last week, President Trump condemned the works of Erika McEntarfer as “phony.” McEntarfer was just the 16th commissioner of ...

Economists and Wall Street investors have long considered the job figures reliable, with share prices and bond yields often ...

Staffing shortfalls have forced the BLS to stop collecting prices in Lincoln, Neb.; Provo, Utah; and Buffalo, N.Y. In the rest of the country, the bureau is also missing an average of about 15% of the ...