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

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...

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

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

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

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

But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...

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

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

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

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