President Trump’s decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer is unlikely to benefit the ...

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been thrust into the spotlight after President Trump criticized its federal jobs report ...

You’ve probably heard the urban legend about the 19th-century naturalist who spent his life traveling the world collecting ...

Losing highly reliable, accurate and transparent data on the health of the world’s largest economy would be perilous.

In a move that forms part of his drive to establish a presidential dictatorship, Trump justified the sacking with bogus claims that the numbers had been “rigged” to make him and the Republicans look ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics plays a crucial role in shaping U.S. economic policy through its reports, which can influence ...

The president’s move throws the quality of America’s statistical apparatus into question.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erica Groshen about the firing of one of her successors over the latest jobs numbers.

William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing “baseless” and “damaging” in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...