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Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...

Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...

By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that ...

President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a widely respected economist ...

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

Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...

(CNN) — The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in charge of producing it. But economists haven’t forgotten about ...

But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will decide on a nominee to fill a coming vacancy on the Federal Reserve's ...