When the economic news is bad, Trump thinks he can just shoot the messenger. Here’s how the firing played out, as well as ...

President Trump on Friday directed his team to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a dismal ...

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President Trump fumed on Friday over a weak jobs report and major downward revisions to May and June employment figures that ...

President Donald Trump got some bad economic news Friday, and responded by shooting the messenger. Trump fired the head of ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.

In an alarming development, President Donald Trump on Friday called for Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Dr. Erika ...

Once politicians realize they can get away with breaking or changing the rules, they are sorely tempted to do it again and ...

Fifty years-plus after Nixon demanded a tally of Jewish staffers at the BLS, Trump fired Erika McEntarfer over numbers he ...

The then-presidential nominee reportedly told Florida Congressman Byron Donalds that doctors had advised him to keep the ...

This is the playbook. We’ve seen it many, many times. And now I have to say, faster even than I expected, it’s come to ...

A spokesperson for BLS confirmed that McEntarfer “was terminated today” and that Deputy Commissioner William Wiatrowski will ...