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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Job-market data is revised every month, but the latest changes caused a stir. They point to a challenge that has dogged the Bureau of Labor Statistics for years: a requirement to quickly produce ...

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

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 ...

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