William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing "baseless" and "damaging" in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...

Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...

Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that ...

The BLS produces data relied on by businesses and policymakers, including the Fed.

President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing her mishandling of ...

Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was controversially fired by US President Donald Trump ...

President Trump on Friday accused the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Erika McEntarfer of faking jobs numbers, ...

President Donald Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following July jobs report disappointment. Economists have ...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough torched President Donald Trump for firing his top economic statistician in what the host called a fact-free tirade. “Less is more on this issue,” Scarborough said on Morning ...

Former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, who was fired after a weak July jobs report, did not directly address Trump's allegations, but thanked her colleagues for their service.

Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump’s unhappiness with Friday’s jobs ...

President Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a jobs report came out Friday from the Labor Department.