Donald Trump has always had a mixed relationship with numbers. They are at once hard, objective truths that provide explicit measures of success: “huge ratings,” “polling like you wouldn’t believe.” ...

President Trump’s firing last week of the head of the United States’ Bureau of Labor Statistics is straight out of the ...

Thanks to cuts in federal government employment, America’s own economic data are becoming increasingly unreliable. As the New York Times reported late last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is ...

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

The Trump administration stands on the cusp of something potentially transformative. If President Donald Trump succeeds in unleashing a new era of energy abundance and securing America's leadership in ...

In a move that forms part of his drive to establish a presidential dictatorship, Trump justified the sacking with bogus claims that the numbers had been “rigged” to make him and the Republicans look ...

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer tours Wisconsin project, highlighting skilled trades shortages and the push to expand ...

House Democrats asked for a congressional hearing on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has slammed President Donald Trump‘s decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week. Christie, who was a longtime ...

Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...

I was stunned last week when President Trump ordered the firing of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after ...

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