Victoria Guida is an economics correspondent at POLITICO and author of Capital Letter, a reported column that probes policies ...

Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi warned that the U.S. economy is on the precipice of recession as weak jobs data and rising ...

Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer is out because President Donald Trump didn't like the July jobs report.

In normal times, the first Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report.

In the 21st century, U.S. economic data has become embedded in the life of the nation. It determines increases in Social Security benefits for retirees, influences the purchases of auto and home ...

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

President Trump, unhappy with the latest economic data, fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's bad news.

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 ...

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...