After President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, her former adviser at Virginia Tech is defending her professionalism.

The result will be opacity, uncertainty, greater financial risk and (especially) a persistent suspicion that inflation is being understated — all of which will push long-term bond yields higher and ...

Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...

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E.J. Antoni is a partisan hack. A frequent guest on Steve Bannon’s "War Room" podcast, he’s joined Bannon in criticizing the ...

Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was controversially fired by US President Donald Trump following a weak jobs report and significant downward revisions in employment ...

While there’s no indication the data has been rigged (assertions from the White House aside) – or will be rigged in the ...

Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer because he said she rigged the numbers to make ...

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 ...

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 ...