When the coronavirus surged during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term, he called for a simple fix: Limit the amount of ...

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

US stocks close higher as investors price in a Fed rate cut soon and easing trade worries. EU delays retaliatory tariffs and Switzerland aims for deal ...

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

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 he believes the “economy is ...

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

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 the U.

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

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

Yet with no basis in fact, Trump charged that Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of labor statistics, “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” Then he ordered her fired and ...

To build trust in government data, President Donald Trump should not fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. He ...