A much smaller group of a dozen or fewer people then prepare the employment report. They lock the numbers into the BLS system and on the Wednesday before the report is published, the commissioner is ...

President Trump’s abrupt dismissal of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, stemming from his mistrust of ...

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President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics carries reputational risks for the ...

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.” ...

Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...

New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...

By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that helps drive economic decision making.

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

Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.

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

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...