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.

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

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 ...

President Donald Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a disappointing July jobs report showed only 73,000 jobs added and major downward revisions to previous months. Accusing her of ...

That’s part of the reason Gonzaga associate professor of economics Ryan Herzog thinks President Donald Trump made a mistake ...

A proposal to shift the BLS' jobs reports from a monthly schedule to a quarterly one could create big headaches for ...

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

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 ...

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

President Donald Trump announced Monday his nomination of E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, to serve ...

Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump’s unhappiness with Friday’s jobs report. She had served as BLS head for a year and a half.

Staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics called President Donald Trump's firing of its commissioner “depressing” and “CRAZY!!” ...