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 ...

Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...

Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...

By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that ...

Our government uses the fig leaf of “cultural exchange” to flood the summer job market with tens of thousands of student ...

New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...

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 ...

(CNN) — The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in charge of producing it. But economists haven’t forgotten about ...

Like President Donald Trump, Americans are skeptical of economic data from the federal government, according to a new poll. The latest Economist/YouGov poll found that more Americans completely or ...