Until Friday, McEntarfer was the country’s commissioner of labor statistics, a vital, though largely behind-the-scenes, role ...

A host of policymakers, businesses and consumers rely on BLS data. The monthly inflation report is crucial to the Federal ...

President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled one of his simmering resentments: the statistician overseeing the ...

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after President Donald Trump on Friday fired the official who oversees it.

A GOP lawmaker said Monday that President Donald Trump's actions to control economic data remind him of a former soviet leader. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) joined CNN's "The Lead" with fill-in host Phil ...