In this episode of WSJ’s Take On the Week, we discuss the dismissal of Erika McEntarfer as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and what this might mean for the future reliability of economic data.

The Trump administration is interviewing candidates to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), including E.J. Antoni, ...

Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ leader compounds a yearslong struggle to modernize methods and maintain ...

I thought of that experience in the light of Donald Trump—and not just because his divisive style mirrors Rizzo. Last week, ...

Why did he do such a stupid thing?” That was the question economist John Maynard Keynes asked in 1925 after Winston Churchill ...

(NEXSTAR) – Campaigning for office a year ago, standing in front of a table loaded up with bags of flour, cartons of eggs and gallons of milk, President Donald Trump told voters, “When I win, I will ...

President Donald Trump claims, without a shred of evidence, that the government’s premiere economic data operation ...

President Trump’s firing of the BLS commissioner could undermine trust in the indicators the government releases.

Bureau of Labor Statistics faces scrutiny over data collection methods following disappointing July jobs report that missed economist estimates by 37,000 positions.

No, and no. The BLS is constantly modernizing its methods, and private companies cannot replace the BLS or any other US ...

THE CREDIBILITY of the agency in charge of measuring the health of the US labor market is at risk following President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics — with ...