Donald Trump has always had a mixed relationship with numbers. They are at once hard, objective truths that provide explicit measures of success: “huge ratings,” “polling like you wouldn’t believe.” ...

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

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...

Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...

President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a widely respected economist ...

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

The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...

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

(CNN) — The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in charge of producing it. But economists haven’t forgotten about ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' data does more than capture monthly job growth and inflation pressures_; it plays a crucial role in Americans’ financial lives, say Joe Pinsker, Heather Gillers and Ash ...

One of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers strongly suggested Wednesday that an economic report was “manipulated politically” to help Barack Obama win reelection in 2012. Kevin Hassett, ...