Economists and Wall Street investors have long considered the job figures reliable, with share prices and bond yields often reacting sharply when they are released.

Staffing shortfalls have forced the BLS to stop collecting prices in Lincoln, Neb.; Provo, Utah; and Buffalo, N.Y. In the rest of the country, the bureau is also missing an average of about 15% of the ...

Big question marks still loom for the Fed, and while the jobs report last Friday was weak, the unemployment rate remains low.

Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.

Yet with no basis in fact, Trump charged that Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of labor statistics, “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” Then he ordered her fired and ...

Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after disappointing July jobs report, claiming the ...

U.S. stock futures rose, the dollar was steady and two- and 10-year Treasury yields edged higher as Trump moves to make some key hires at the Fed and Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...