The Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics won't publish its October 2025 Employment Situation report because it could not retroactively collect data for the household survey part of the ...

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam,” accusing one of the top overseers of government statistics of cooking the ...

We learned last week that in August, the national unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS arrives at that number by surveying households to ask who’s ...

Budget constraints and workforce cuts have taken a toll on the Labor Department’s production of economic data. And that was before President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor ...

Hours before President Donald Trump fired former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer this month, E.J. Antoni appeared on former White House strategist Steve Bannon’s podcast to ...

Wall Street faces uncertainty after President Trump fired the BLS commissioner, raising concerns about the reliability and independence of key economic data. This unprecedented move could undermine ...

Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer over baseless and contradictory allegations that the agency had “rigged” the monthly jobs ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how to drive more value with data and analytics. When President Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ...

Stephen Miran said he was “not the right person” to answer questions posed by Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.) about President Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. Photo: Daniel ...