President Donald Trump doubled down on claims that the Bureau of Labor Statistics had “rigged” jobs data during a Tuesday ...

The move has sparked warnings over data reliability in federal economic reporting. The BLS reported a gain of just 73,000 ...

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

Instead of considering economic explanations for the low jobs number, the president’s response was to punish the messenger.

President Donald Trump’s firing Friday of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a Biden appointee who’d been confirmed with overwhelming bipartisan support — pierced BLS’s reputation and created ...

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 ...

Trump fires BLS head Erika McEntarfer over "rigged" jobs report, raising concerns about economic data integrity and agency independence.

President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing her mishandling of ...

The Trump administration is struggling to defend its firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner, Erika McEntarfer. Gene Sperling and Peter Goodman discuss on The Eleventh Hour.

President Donald Trump thrust the nation's system for economic data collection into the spotlight in recent days after he ...