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

But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...

When I heard the news the authoritarian imbecile had fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics director for the crime of factual ...

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Aug. 1, 2025, the day a poor jobs report ...

The BLS jobs survey is widely considered by economists to be robust. It samples more than 100,000 businesses and government ...

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 ...

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

Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer is out because President Donald Trump didn't like the July jobs report.

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

Trump’s decision to dismiss Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) chief Erika McEntarfer was taken on Friday afternoon, just ...