The July jobs report released last Friday wasn’t pretty. It showed weaker than anticipated U.S. job growth in July, and there were substantial downward revisions of jobs numbers for May and June as ...

The full story is more complicated. Trump is broadly right on the question of how much leverage the need for foreign access ...

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Trump’s attack on the federal jobs statistics is the latest blow to essential U.S. infrastructure that has taken a century to ...

Letters discuss topics ranging from the firing of the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the potential deportation of naturalized citizens. A debate unfolds regarding Israel's actions in ...

Michael R. Strain explains why a robust economy depends on public confidence in the integrity of official data.

One of the key jobs of presidents is to face facts and make tough decisions based on them. But, since Donald Trump rejects any facts that run counter to the fake reality in which he lives, his ...

President Trump is right to raise doubts about the motivations of the government officials tasked with collecting and releasing economic data. But it would also ...

Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...

Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...

Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...

The Army, unlike Princeton and Harvard, knew a petulant, insecure mediocrity when it saw one. For whatever reason—perhaps ...