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

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

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

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

We’ve all been there, in the middle of an objectively bad outcome, and had the same knee-jerk reaction: Blame someone else!

President Donald Trump says the U.S. economy is going great under his stewardship. The latest jobs numbers suggest a slowdown ...

The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...

The administration argues Commissioner Erika McEntarfer was removed for incompetence, but the most avid consumers of the agency’s data — top economists and key figures on Wall Street — worry it was ...

Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...

While phoning into CNBC on Tuesday morning, President Trump defended his decision to fire the labor statistics commissioner ...

On Friday, after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing weak July hiring numbers and significant downward ...