Echoes of the Argentine experience have reverberated in the U.S. since Trump fired the BLS commissioner, accusing the agency of rigging jobs figures.

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

Like any government agency, the BLS is a thoroughly political entity. And yet Donald Trump’s critics are right to be worried.

Economics textbooks insist that stock prices reflect the future stream of a company’s profits on any given day. For all the ...

On Thursday, President Donald Trump took a break from gilding the Oval Office to summon the media for a presentation in a ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics needs to turn to real-time information as its surveys increasingly go unanswered.

PolitiFact Ruling: Pants on Fire. The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day ...

Trump’s criticism of the Fed, like that of the BLS, is at best a transparent effort to deflect blame for the ill effects of ...

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.

Geopolitics is high on the agenda, with a meeting between the U.S. and Russian presidents, trade deadlines and talks, and ...

Reports indicate President Donald Trump is interviewing candidates for the vacant Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner ...

Perryman also addresses the potential impact of the recent firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.