President Donald Trump's firing of the commissioner of labor statistics, Erika McEntarfer, on Friday raises serious risks for retirees living on Social Security, and for those with money in U.S. bonds ...

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President Donald Trump said that he would fill two key leadership positions with significant oversight of the US economy as ...

Shock is reverberating around the US economics and statistical community after Donald Trump on Friday summarily fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer.

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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 he believes the “economy is ...

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President Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner is raising concerns about whether her replacement could manipulate job numbers to work in his favor. The traditionally ...

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 ...

Some fear a decline in the world-leading economic statistics underpinning U.S. markets.

Trump fires BLS head Erika McEntarfer over "rigged" jobs report, raising concerns about economic data integrity and agency independence.