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President Donald Trump on Friday removed the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures after a report showed hiring slowed<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...
The anemic job gains in July, June, and May make it more likely the Fed will reduce borrowing costs at its September meeting, ...
President Trump's federal hiring freeze and decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer raise ...
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erica Groshen about the firing of one of her successors over the latest jobs numbers.
The firing of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer came just hours after the Labor Department reported that the US added only 73 ...
Trump to name a new Federal Reserve governor & chief labor market statistician. Key appointments could shape economic policy ...
President Donald Trump’s acolytes are scrambling to rationalize his decision to fire the nation’s top labor statistician ...
When authoritarianism encroaches, apologists often present a strongman’s power grabs as rational — even imperative for the ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics was a dumpster fire during her tenure as commissioner.
Irked by a steep downward revision to the jobs data, U.S. President Donald Trump recommended the firing of Bureau of Labor ...
U.S. President Donald Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of faking employment data to all-time highs before the ...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ripped President Donald Trump as a “petulant child” on Sunday for his dramatic firing ...