President Trump’s firing of Commissioner of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer last Friday brought into laser focus how willing he ...

In a move that forms part of his drive to establish a presidential dictatorship, Trump justified the sacking with bogus claims that the numbers had been “rigged” to make him and the Republicans look ...

Victoria Guida is an economics correspondent at POLITICO and author of Capital Letter, a reported column that probes policies ...

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

House Democrats asked for a congressional hearing on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer.

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

Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...

Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...

Trump’s decision to dismiss Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) chief Erika McEntarfer was taken on Friday afternoon, just ...

Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer is out because President Donald Trump didn't like the July jobs report.

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