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Officials are looking at E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, to head ...
President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...
President Trump’s firing of the BLS commissioner could undermine trust in the indicators the government releases.
The Trump administration is interviewing candidates to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), including E.J. Antoni, ...
President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top labor statistics official over the weekend while igniting a political firestorm ...
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.
Here's why firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner could undermine trust in indicators the government releases and ...
By all means, President Donald Trump had good reason to fire a Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner who failed to solve ...
Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers ...
Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that ...
Losing highly reliable, accurate and transparent data on the health of the world’s largest economy would be perilous.
Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following a disappointing jobs report.