"Firing the labor statistician delivering the data is akin to breaking the thermometer because of a heat wave," John Rash writes.

Trump’s knee-jerk response to troublesome data is to deny it. He has eliminated climate change and disease statistics that contradict his views.

Greg Abbott (R), where lawmakers aim to redraw Texas’s election map — a move backed by President Donald Trump — the state legislature will reconvene Tuesday for a second straight day without dozens of ...

Big question marks still loom for the Fed, and while the jobs report last Friday was weak, the unemployment rate remains low.

Trump's interview comes as the administration juggles a slew of tariff negotiations as well as new U.S. jobs data.

President Donald Trump said that he would fill two key leadership positions with significant oversight of the US economy as ...

Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says he believes the “economy is ...

Trump has long touted that he helped secure the 2028 Olympics in the U.S. during his first term and has expressed his ...

Since his return to office, President Trump has waged something of a pressure campaign on economic data and the people in charge of delivering it. His firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

President Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner is raising concerns about whether her replacement could manipulate job numbers to work in his favor. The traditionally ...

In announcing the firing of the government’s chief labor statistician last week, President Trump condemned the works of Erika McEntarfer as “phony.” McEntarfer was just the 16th commissioner of ...

The dollar edged up against the euro and the yen, but remained within striking distance of Friday’s lows, after weak U.S.