Economist and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers’s response to the news: Firing the head of a key government agency because you don’t like the numbers they report, which come from surveys using ...

President Donald Trump has fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he accused, without evidence, of manipulating the monthly jobs reports for “political ...

U.S. employers are adding far fewer jobs than initially tallied, in the latest sign that the labor market may be weaker than expected, according to a preliminary report from the Labor Department on ...