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 ...

Dismissing data, facts and professional opinions, Trump asserts the numbers are "faked." This view and approach by a ...

The Trump White House lying about its battle with Harvard to give a false impression of victory would certainly track with ...

In announcing the firing of the government’s chief labor statistician last week, President Trump condemned the works of Erika ...

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

When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) delivered a disappointing jobs report on Friday, August 1 and President Donald Trump responded by firing BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and accusing ...

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 ...

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

There was no follow through, however. Monday saw much of these moves pared back as U.S. markets puzzled over how to price this rare threat of statistical bias, with murmurs of political influence in ...

Bacon spoke to CNN Monday night. He said it was a mistake to fire the director before getting the facts first. Bacon called ...