Let’s not pretend that President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner on Friday because of supposed ...

What happens next can only go wrong for him and the U.S. Here’s what experts and critics are arguing in the aftermath.

The BLS produces data relied on by businesses and policymakers, including the Fed.

Trump fired the previous head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after he was unhappy with a weaker-than-expected July jobs ...

Trump fires BLS head Erika McEntarfer over "rigged" jobs report, raising concerns about economic data integrity and agency independence.

To build trust in government data, President Donald Trump should not fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. He ...

The move has sparked warnings over data reliability in federal economic reporting. The BLS reported a gain of just 73,000 ...

President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics forced his allies into the awkward spot of ...

President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing her mishandling of ...

Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump’s unhappiness with Friday’s jobs ...

President Donald Trump plans to fill two important economic vacancies in the next 3-4 days, he said Sunday. The BLS ...

President Donald Trump’s firing Friday of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a Biden appointee who’d been confirmed with overwhelming bipartisan support — pierced BLS’s reputation and created ...