Here's why firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner could undermine trust in indicators the government releases and ...

By all means, President Donald Trump had good reason to fire a Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner who failed to solve ...

President Trump’s firing of the BLS commissioner could undermine trust in the indicators the government releases.

During an Oval Office meeting, pro-Trump economist Steve Moore said the president made the right call to fire the head of Bureau of Labor Statistics given faulty jobs projections.

Princeton’s José Scheinkman said Trump was “emulating” leaders such as Erdoğan in “seizing control of stats agencies”. Turkey’s president fired the head of the national statistical institute in 2022 ...

This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.

“Let me put it this way: People make mistakes all the time driving the car. Now imagine that you blur the windshield,” he ...

The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).

President Trump and economist Stephen Moore held a surprise briefing in the Oval Office on Thursday, challenging the ...

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits ticked up to the highest level in a month last week ...

Donald Trump has almost certainly complained more about journalists than any of his predecessors have, maybe more than all of ...