PROVIDENCE — US Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a weaker-than-expected ...

This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.

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 ...

President Donald Trump is the first president to fire the chief of a key government agency that produces the crucial U.S. jobs report. To hear President Donald Trump and his allies tell it, the ...

A much smaller group of a dozen or fewer people then prepare the employment report. They lock the numbers into the BLS system and on the Wednesday before the report is published, the commissioner is ...

President Trump’s abrupt dismissal of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, stemming from his mistrust of ...

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President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics carries reputational risks for the ...

Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...

New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...

By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that helps drive economic decision making.

Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...