The BLS produces data relied on by businesses and policymakers, including the Fed.

Saving taxpayer money, saving lives and finding novel solutions to meaningful problems is what government workers do every ...

On August 11, Trump announced his nominee to replace McEntarfer: E.J. Antoni, chief economist and Richard Aster fellow at The ...

President Trump on Friday accused the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Erika McEntarfer of faking jobs numbers, ...

A newspaper owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has blasted Donald Trump’s choice of a new director at the Bureau of Labor ...

Consumer sentiment worsened in August, snapping two consecutive months of improved attitudes among shoppers as President ...

William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing "baseless" and "damaging" in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...

Still, some warnings from financial writers have been ominous: Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, said the firing was ...

Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump’s unhappiness with Friday’s jobs ...

Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that ...

E.J. Antoni is a partisan hack. A frequent guest on Steve Bannon’s "War Room" podcast, he’s joined Bannon in criticizing the Bureau of Labor Statistics before, including the week those July numbers ...

Donald Trump has fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, today, accusing her of distorting employment numbers in some plot to set him up. The accusation came just ...