The pandemic has exposed the shortcomings in how we measure everything, from inflation to GDP to jobs, says Helen Thomas ...

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 ...

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

Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...

Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...

(CNN) — The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in charge of producing it. But economists haven’t forgotten about ...

Like President Donald Trump, Americans are skeptical of economic data from the federal government, according to a new poll.

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

An expansionary budget bill, rapidly shifting tariff rates, and attempts to influence interest rates will benefit certain interests. But is the average American really one of them?

One of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers strongly suggested Wednesday that an economic report was “manipulated politically” to help Barack Obama win reelection in 2012. Kevin Hassett, ...

In case you had any doubt that it’s Donald “Economy Butcher” Trump who’s really trying to rig the economic numbers.