President Donald Trump is the first president to fire the chief of a key government agency that produces the crucial U.S. jobs report. To hear President Donald Trump and his allies tell it, the ...

Treasury Secretary Bessent defended President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head Erika McEntarfer after unprecedented downward revisions to May and June jobs figures ...

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically ...

Response rates to government surveys have plummeted since COVID, but experts say that doesn't mean the numbers are wrong ...

The numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had ...

President Trump’s firing last week of the head of the United States’ Bureau of Labor Statistics is straight out of the ...

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

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

A former Federal Reserve official gets candid about Trump’s firing of the BLS chief.

Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...

Like President Donald Trump, Americans are skeptical of economic data from the federal government, according to a new poll.

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