President Donald Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, stating, without ...

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

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

A much smaller group of a dozen or fewer people then prepare the employment report. They lock the numbers into the BLS system and on the Wednesday before the report is published, the commissioner is ...

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 ...

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

The former labor secretary calls Bureau of Labor Statistics “crown jewel” of government efforts to explain the economy.

As with the BLS, a lack of resources is one problem. In his February testimony, Diamond said the surge in inflation from 2021 had forced the ONS to make big savings in order to cover pay rises that ...

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

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 ...