The agency argued that it had no better way to handle a challenging patchwork of missing data caused by the recent government ...

E.J. Antoni, who President Donald Trump said he is nominating to lead the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, has suggested temporarily suspending monthly jobs reports—raising construction economists' ...

Cadillac decided to sell this one model overseas only, well outside its comfort zone. Sadly, it learned some hard lessons.

Economist and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers’s response to the news: Firing the head of a key government agency because you don’t like the numbers they report, which come from surveys using ...

The recent release of revised employment statistics — in which 911,000 jobs thought to have been created over the course of a year seemingly vanished — sharpened the debate over how well President Joe ...

U.S. employers are adding far fewer jobs than initially tallied, in the latest sign that the labor market may be weaker than expected, according to a preliminary report from the Labor Department on ...

In a striking example of partisan storytelling overtaking statistical reality, Fox & Friends Weekend leaned hard into the idea that the Bureau of Labor Statistics manipulated jobs data during the ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The trustworthiness of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) data on inflation, employment, wages, productivity, and consumer spending has historically been a concern only for cranks and conspiracy ...

Statisticians railed against President Trump on Friday following his decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner Erika McEntarfer for “inaccuracies” and “incompetence” after ...

President Trump said in a social media post Friday afternoon that he directed members of his administration to fire Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the BLS on ...