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

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

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 ...

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 ...

By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that helps drive economic decision making.

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

Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.

New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...

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

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 ...

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