Without access to data that’s both objective and seen to be objective, financial markets and government policy are ...

The latest news and top stories on Erika McEntarfer, a distinguished American labour economist. Known for over two decades of public service, she recently served as the 16th Commissioner of Labor ...

If you haven’t been following the saga at an unassuming government agency known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, boy have you been missing out. To catch you up, President Trump recently fired ...

President Donald Trump’s dismissal of Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after a routine downward revision of jobs growth, fits an old pattern: when data conflicts ...

A fresh report on consumer sentiment on Friday will show how shoppers digested a cascade of economic developments this month, including President Donald Trump's firing of a top labor statistics ...