President Donald Trump directed his Administration on Friday to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the ...

President Trump's firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief following a lackluster jobs report has sparked debate over how the agency gets its data. Ben Casselman, the chief economics ...

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...

CNBC news anchor Joe Kernen confronted President Trump over firing the top labor statistics chief, saying it "undermines confidence in the system." ...

In an initial social media post from Aug. 1, Trump decried the bureau's findings that only 73,000 jobs were created in July - ...

Labor economist Aaron Sojourner said President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner ...

"Firing the labor statistician delivering the data is akin to breaking the thermometer because of a heat wave," John Rash writes.

Faced with a souring economy, the president could change course, but he prefers to fire statisticians and to lie brazenly to ...

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...

President Trump faced a surprisingly tough interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box Tuesday morning, as host Joe Kernen, who has often ...

The International Statistical Institute, a professional organization for data collectors, issued a statement late on Monday ...