A much smaller group of a dozen or fewer people then prepare the employment report. They lock the numbers into the BLS system and on the Wednesday before the report is published, the commissioner is ...

President Trump’s abrupt dismissal of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, stemming from his mistrust of ...

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Donald Trump has always had a mixed relationship with numbers. They are at once hard, objective truths that provide explicit measures of success: “huge ratings,” “polling like you wouldn’t believe.” ...

By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that helps drive economic decision making.

Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...

Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.

Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...

Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will decide on a nominee to fill a coming vacancy on the Federal Reserve's ...

The BLS jobs survey is widely considered by economists to be robust. It samples more than 100,000 businesses and government ...

In the 21st century, U.S. economic data has become embedded in the life of the nation. It determines increases in Social Security benefits for retirees, influences the purchases of auto and home ...