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

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

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

The firing of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer came just hours after the Labor Department reported that the US added only 73 ...

That's the number of people unemployed for at least 27 weeks, according to Friday's jobs report, the highest level since 2017 ...

Louisiana’s birth rate is at its lowest point in decades, with roughly 10,000 fewer babies born last year than in 2013. The ...

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.

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Smoke from Canadian wildfires hovered over several Midwestern states Saturday, bringing warnings of unhealthy air for at least the third day. Air quality alerts were in effect in Iowa, Minnesota, ...