After President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, her former adviser at Virginia Tech is defending her professionalism.

While there’s no indication the data has been rigged (assertions from the White House aside) – or will be rigged in the ...

That’s part of the reason Gonzaga associate professor of economics Ryan Herzog thinks President Donald Trump made a mistake ...

President Donald Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a disappointing July jobs report showed only 73,000 jobs added and major downward revisions to previous months. Accusing her of ...

President Trump's federal hiring freeze and decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer raise questions about the validity of inflation data. Japan has clinched the sale ...

A proposal to shift the BLS' jobs reports from a monthly schedule to a quarterly one could create big headaches for ...

Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...

I suppose it is understandable to consider the recent firing of Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as just another casualty among the mass firings President Donald Trump has ...

William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing "baseless" and "damaging" in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...

Donald Trump has, since he first returned to the White House in January, been on a steady march towards authoritarianism, and ...

Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump’s unhappiness with Friday’s jobs report. She had served as BLS head for a year and a half.

Consumer sentiment worsened in August, snapping two consecutive months of improved attitudes among shoppers as President ...