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The head of the agency responsible for producing U.S. jobs and inflation data is usually a low-profile technocrat with deep ...

Political pressure on government statisticians and private forecasters risks sending markets down a rabbit-hole, which could ...

The appointment of E. J. Antoni, to what is supposedly a non-partisan position in the administration, is another significant ...

E.J. Antoni, the conservative economist President Donald Trump named Monday as his pick to lead the nonpartisan Bureau of ...

McEntarfer was confirmed by a broad bipartisan vote of 86 "yes" votes to 8 "no"s in January 2024. Current Vice President JD ...

The story of President Donald Trump’s first seven months back in office is the consolidation of power. He has bulldozed the ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended releasing monthly jobs reports amid accuracy concerns, emphasizing the need for ...

The BLS has failed to modernize, and its methods are deficient. The jobs number and its revisions do not meet accepted ...

Donald Trump got some positive economic data — even if dissing the July jobs report and firing the BLS head may have cost him ...

Trump's job creation is so bad that he wants the BLS to issue a jobs report quarterly instead of monthly, as if that's gonna help.