President Donald Trump’s firing of the chief labor statistician was criticized by her predecessor, who called it an unfounded ...

"This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism," Larry Summers said. "This is really scary stuff." ...

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett criticized the accuracy of recent job numbers and called for a review of the ...

President Trump on Sunday defended his decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) following a weak jobs report, a move that has sparked broad pushback. Trump in a post on ...

At the centre of the controversy is the BLS report issued Friday, which revised previous job growth estimates downward. The report showed that 258,000 fewer jobs were created in May and June than ...

After administration officials spent the morning on the Sunday talk show circuit defending President Trump's firing of the Labor Department's statistics chief, Trump took to his social media account ...

WH Economic Council director Kevin Hassett was pressed repeatedly on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the labor statistics chief on Sunday.

It is too soon to know whether the United States is on a similar path. But economists and other experts said that Mr. Trump’s ...

White House officials on Sunday defended President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ...

Economists are defending Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer, who was fired by President Donald Trump on ...

President Trump fired the BLS chief after a poor jobs report, amid concerns of meddling in economic data reporting and issues ...