This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.

President Donald Trump is the first president to fire the chief of a key government agency that produces the crucial U.S. jobs report. To hear President Donald Trump and his allies tell it, the ...

Steve Bannon, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump in his first term and an influential voice in conservative circles, is pushing for EJ Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics.“I’ve told ...

A much smaller group of a dozen or fewer people then prepare the employment report. They lock the numbers into the BLS system and on the Wednesday before the report is published, the commissioner is ...

President Trump’s abrupt dismissal of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, stemming from his mistrust of ...

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

By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that ...

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

Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...

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.