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Trump's firing of BLS chief Erika McEntarfer over labor statistics could backfire as a potential recession looms.
Economists and Wall Street investors have long considered the job figures reliable, with share prices and bond yields often ...
"Firing the labor statistician delivering the data is akin to breaking the thermometer because of a heat wave," John Rash writes.
Trump’s knee-jerk response to troublesome data is to deny it. He has eliminated climate change and disease statistics that contradict his views.
Greg Abbott (R), where lawmakers aim to redraw Texas’s election map — a move backed by President Donald Trump — the state legislature will reconvene Tuesday for a second straight day without dozens of ...
Big question marks still loom for the Fed, and while the jobs report last Friday was weak, the unemployment rate remains low.
Job-market data is revised every month, but the latest changes caused a stir. They point to a challenge that has dogged the Bureau of Labor Statistics for years: a requirement to quickly produce ...
Trump's interview comes as the administration juggles a slew of tariff negotiations as well as new U.S. jobs data.