President Trump fired the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official after new data showed U.S. hiring slowed sharply this ...

Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after disappointing July jobs report, claiming the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FILE PHOTO: A trader works, as screens broadcast a press conference by U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell following the ...

When the coronavirus surged during President Donald Trump's first term, he sought to downplay the outbreak by urging fewer ...

President Donald Trump is still fuming about Friday’s weak jobs numbers and downward revisions. After calling the report rigged, he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. American consumers ...

The event in Lincoln, Nebraska, attracted a rowdy crowd that yelled and booed as Rep. Mike Flood defended Trump ...

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 ...