Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Tuesday tore apart President Donald Trump for firing the head of the Bureau of Labor ...

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

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...

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

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

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

President Trump’s firing of Commissioner of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer last Friday brought into laser focus how willing he ...

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

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

Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.

Victoria Guida is an economics correspondent at POLITICO and author of Capital Letter, a reported column that probes policies ...