Like any government agency, the BLS is a thoroughly political entity. And yet Donald Trump’s critics are right to be worried.

Economist Steve Moore discusses President Donald Trump’s economic policy and ‘correct’ firing of a Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

The Federal Reserve has not approved an interest rate cut since before the Nov. 5 election, but one of its governors said she ...

Trump’s outburst over a bad jobs report is the second-term equivalent of his furious insistence in 2017 that more than a ...

Other data exists from other federal, state and private sources, but would be hard to replicate the breadth of what BLS provides.

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

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

The Conversation U.S. asked Tom Stapleford, a professor who has written a book on the political history of the U.S. consumer price index, to explain why this move could undermine trust in the ...

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

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.

President Donald Trump has summoned reporters to the Oval Office to present charts that he says shows the economy is solid.

THE CREDIBILITY of the agency in charge of measuring the health of the US labor market is at risk following President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics — with ...