Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that ...

President Donald Trump took a step many economists had feared: firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nonpartisan agency that collects a wide range of closely watched employment and ...

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

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

The BLS produces data relied on by businesses and policymakers, including the Fed.

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

Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was controversially fired by US President Donald Trump ...

President Trump on Friday accused the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Erika McEntarfer of faking jobs numbers, ...

President Donald Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following July jobs report disappointment. Economists have ...

Former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, who was fired after a weak July jobs report, did not directly address Trump's allegations, but thanked her colleagues for their service.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough torched President Donald Trump for firing his top economic statistician in what the host called a fact-free tirade. “Less is more on this issue,” Scarborough said on Morning ...

President Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a jobs report came out Friday from the Labor Department.