The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...

Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...

Yesterday, the president of the United States appeared without explanation on the roof of the White House, walked aimlessly ...

Canning the labor chief will make jobs statistics less trustworthy, but authoritarians thrive in a world of blurred fact and ...

The administration argues Commissioner Erika McEntarfer was removed for incompetence, but the most avid consumers of the agency’s data — top economists and key figures on Wall Street — worry it was ...

Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...

Donald Trump has, since he first returned to the White House in January, been on a steady march towards authoritarianism, and took another big leap in that direction last Friday when he fired ...

On Friday, after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing weak July hiring numbers and significant downward ...

The jobs report for July revealed that some 258,000 fewer jobs were added in May and June than previously reported.

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

Trump has falsely alleged that former BLS commissioner "faked" employment numbers before the 2024 election in order to better ...

Trump’s attack on the Bureau of Labor Statistics and, more broadly, on facts, marks another step closer to authoritarianism.