Faced with a souring economy, the president could change course, but he prefers to fire statisticians and to lie brazenly to ...

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

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...

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

President Trump faced a surprisingly tough interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box Tuesday morning, as host Joe Kernen, who has often praised the president in the past, grilled him on his ousting of the ...

Labor economist Aaron Sojourner said President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner ...

CNBC news anchor Joe Kernen confronted President Trump over firing the top labor statistics chief, saying it "undermines confidence in the system." ...

CNBC anchor Joe Kernen questioned President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his claims about a recent jobs report. A revised ...

President Trump's firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief following a lackluster jobs report has sparked debate over ...

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

Since Friday, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report, President Donald Trump has made repeated ...