Officials are looking at E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, to head ...

President Trump said he ordered his administration to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after the ...

President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top labor statistics official over the weekend while igniting a political firestorm ...

President Trump’s firing of the BLS commissioner could undermine trust in the indicators the government releases.

After six months of haranguing the Federal Reserve to slash the federal funds rate despite a persistently strong economy, ...

Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following a disappointing jobs report.

Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that ...

A spokesperson for BLS confirmed that McEntarfer “was terminated today” and that Deputy Commissioner William Wiatrowski will ...

The former labor secretary calls Bureau of Labor Statistics “crown jewel” of government efforts to explain the economy.

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William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing “baseless” and “damaging” in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...

President Trump’s decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer is unlikely to benefit the ...