Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi warned that the U.S. economy is on the precipice of recession as weak jobs data and rising ...

Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer is out because President Donald Trump didn't like the July jobs report.

In normal times, the first Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report.

The July jobs report released last Friday wasn’t pretty. It showed weaker than anticipated U.S. job growth in July, and there were substantial downward revisions of jobs numbers for May and June as ...

Canning the labor chief will make jobs statistics less trustworthy, but authoritarians thrive in a world of blurred fact and ...

In the 21st century, U.S. economic data has become embedded in the life of the nation. It determines increases in Social Security benefits for retirees, influences the purchases of auto and home ...

President Trump is right to raise doubts about the motivations of the government officials tasked with collecting and ...

Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...

Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...

Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...

Recent payroll revisions have highlighted the challenges facing U.S. statistics agencies. Politics isn’t the issue, ...