President Donald Trump has, since he first returned to the White House in January, been on a steady march towards ...

Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ leader compounds a yearslong struggle to modernize methods and maintain resources.

Like any government agency, the BLS is a thoroughly political entity. And yet Donald Trump’s critics are right to be worried.

The July survey results from the Institute for Supply Management supports the jobs data the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief ...

PolitiFact Ruling: Pants on Fire. The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day ...

A recent letter writer complained that Nazi comparisons of Trump's detainment camps that deny people access to due process ...

Donald Trump has, since he first returned to the White House in January, been on a steady march towards authoritarianism, and ...

As approval ratings hit record lows and independent voters flee, even loyal Republicans privately acknowledge Trump's ...

President Donald Trump wants to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, who he appointed, because Powell wouldn’t do what Trump wanted. Then the job market numbers were revised, unfavorably, so ...

The downside of shooting a messenger for bearing bad news is it tends to isolate a leader from the facts necessary to make informed decisions.

Other data exists from other federal, state and private sources, but would be hard to replicate the breadth of what BLS provides.

In the battle between fear and facts, Trump has scored some early victories. But the costs of his crusade continue to mount.