Recent payroll revisions have highlighted the challenges facing U.S. statistics agencies. Politics isn’t the issue, ...

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index.

But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...

Donald Trump's move to fire the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has put trust in U.S. data reporting mechanisms on the line just as demand for reliable diagnoses of the health of the world ...

An expansionary budget bill, rapidly shifting tariff rates, and attempts to influence interest rates will benefit certain interests. But is the average American really one of them?

Can Americans trust economic data from the Trump administration? Broadly speaking, there are two angles to this that are worth keeping in mind.

Investors have long parsed economic reports on the labor market or inflation to help determine prices for stocks and bonds.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is cutting back its collection of data on consumer prices, raising questions about the reliability of federal economic statistics under President Trump. Every month ...

A key government statistical agency has cut back on its data collection, raising concerns among experts about widely used information about inflation, unemployment, and other facets of the economy.

Indeed, some private economists worry the collection staff cutbacks are already hurting the quality of the data produced in the report. Concerns were raised by outside economists after the Trump ...