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

President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top labor statistics official over the weekend while igniting a political firestorm ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been thrust into the spotlight after President Trump criticized its federal jobs report ...

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...

President Donald Trump defended his decision in firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, 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 ...

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 ...

Hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data showing slow job growth for July and prior months, ...

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 ...

President Trump fired the BLS commissioner after a disappointing July jobs report. The BLS is an independent agency that operates under the Labor Department. BLS jobs data comes from surveys of U.S.