Trump's firing of BLS chief Erika McEntarfer over labor statistics could backfire as a potential recession looms.

"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.

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.

President Donald Trump said that he would fill two key leadership positions with significant oversight of the US economy as ...

US stocks close higher as investors price in a Fed rate cut soon and easing trade worries. EU delays retaliatory tariffs and Switzerland aims for deal ...

President Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner is raising concerns about whether her replacement could manipulate job numbers to work in his favor. The traditionally ...

In announcing the firing of the government’s chief labor statistician last week, President Trump condemned the works of Erika McEntarfer as “phony.” McEntarfer was just the 16th commissioner of ...

Economists and Wall Street investors have long considered the job figures reliable, with share prices and bond yields often ...