History shows that when political leaders manipulate or interfere with economic statistics, the results are often disastrous.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erica Groshen about the firing of one of her successors over the latest jobs numbers.

President Trump's federal hiring freeze and decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer raise questions about the validity of inflation data.

President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, after the agency’s latest jobs ...

The U.S. dollar found some support on Monday after Friday's dismal U.S. jobs report and President Donald Trump's firing of a ...

On Friday, we reported on the latest jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which showed weaker than expected growth. On Friday afternoon, President Trump fired the person in charge of ...

“I was just informed that our Country’s ‘Jobs Numbers’ are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the ...

After U.S. jobs figures for May and June were revised significantly downward by the Bureau of Labor Statistics — slashing a ...

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...

President Donald Trump’s acolytes are scrambling to rationalize his decision to fire the nation’s top labor statistician ...

The president fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner on Friday after poor job numbers. A Federal Reserve governor ...

When authoritarianism encroaches, apologists often present a strongman’s power grabs as rational — even imperative for the ...