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(NEXSTAR) – Campaigning for office a year ago, standing in front of a table loaded up with bags of flour, cartons of eggs and gallons of milk, President Donald Trump told voters, “When I win, I will ...
"The enduring concern, according to two Minnesotans with unique insight into the issue, is in part because of how ...
After President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economists and statisticians across the board were ...
Trump's replacement of labor statistics head after bad report shouldn't hurt integrity of jobs numbers. But there may still be reason to worry.
President Donald Trump claims, without a shred of evidence, that the government’s premiere economic data operation nefariously engineered negative statistics “for political purposes.” ...
President Trump’s firing of the BLS commissioner could undermine trust in the indicators the government releases.
By all means, President Donald Trump had good reason to fire a Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner who failed to solve ...
The recent revisions downward were unusually large, but there are many factors that require updating numbers, and rigging the data would be difficult.
THE CREDIBILITY of the agency in charge of measuring the health of the US labor market is at risk following President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics — with ...
How exactly does the BLS assemble the critical jobs report? And what is the commissioner’s role? Here’s what we know.
The agency is poised to play a big role in the White House AI Action Plan, though some worry “worker-first” language won’t actually mitigate job loss.