The July jobs report released last Friday wasn’t pretty. It showed weaker than anticipated U.S. job growth in July, and there were substantial downward revisions of jobs numbers for May and June as ...

In the 21st century, U.S. economic data has become embedded in the life of the nation. It determines increases in Social Security benefits for retirees, influences the purchases of auto and home ...

Michael R. Strain explains why a robust economy depends on public confidence in the integrity of official data.

President Trump is right to raise doubts about the motivations of the government officials tasked with collecting and releasing economic data. But it would also ...

Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...

Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...

Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown likely factored into the slowdown in employment gains in the past few months ...

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...

Trump had previously touted the May and June jobs reports as proof he was 'revitalizing the American economy.' The revised data bursts those boasts.

Recent payroll revisions have highlighted the challenges facing U.S. statistics agencies. Politics isn’t the issue, economists say.

When I was the press assistant in the Obama White House, there was one thing I could always count on: the first Friday of every month was jobs day. Even a decade later, I wake up ...