President Donald Trump was laughed at and fact-checked live on CNBC during a wild phone interview in which he claimed the jobs numbers were cooked and he has “the best poll numbers I’ve ever had.” The ...

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A prominent Indiana economist is strongly criticizing President Trump's decision to dismiss the head of the Bureau of Labor ...

While the downward revision of May and June payroll growth by 258,000 marked the largest two-month downward revision to the jobs numbers since 1968, revisions themselves are not uncommon. Revisions ...

President Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics head is likely to cause lasting damage to U.S. credibility.

President Donald Trump doubled down on claims that the Bureau of Labor Statistics had “ rigged ” jobs data during a Tuesday ...

A defiant President Trump defended his firing of a top government jobs monitor and said he would like to run again in 2028.

Co-host Joe Kernen tried to convince Trump that firing Dr. Erika McEntarfer after a disappointing jobs report could ...

Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.

Trump has focused on the revisions to the May and June data, which on Friday were revised lower, with job gains in May ...

The president said he would soon announce a replacement for departing Fed Gov. Adriana Kugler, adding that it's a ...

President Donald Trump has fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), after the agency ...