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

PROVIDENCE — US Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a weaker-than-expected ...

During Oval Office meeting pro-Trump economist Steve Moore says the president made the right call to fire the head of Bureau of Labor Statistics given wildly faulty jobs projections.

Treasury Secretary Bessent defended President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head Erika McEntarfer after unprecedented downward revisions to May and June jobs figures ...

Response rates to government surveys have plummeted since COVID, but experts say that doesn't mean the numbers are wrong ...

The numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had ...

Trump's firing of McEntarfer led to widespread criticism, with pundits warning that Trump was intimidating officials to only present him positive information.

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 ...

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Tuesday tore apart President Donald Trump for firing the head of the Bureau of Labor ...

President Donald Trump's tantrum over the weak jobs numbers and termination of the Bureau of Labor Statistics director is in ...

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically ...

The July 2025 unemployment report sparked controversy after President Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, accusing her of “rigging” data. Beyond the political tantrum, the report revealed ...