Federal statistical agencies face increasingly overt politicization by the Trump Administration on top of chronic underinvestment, uncertainty, and recent and proposed budget cuts, all of which ...

Innovative technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are transforming and modernizing the way data is generated, collected, and analyzed across different industries and fields of study. 1 ...

The US Labor Department's internal watchdog has launched an investigation into how it gathers jobs and inflation data after intense White House criticism of the agency.

Fired by Trump last month, Erika McEntarfer raised the alarm on political meddling in economic data collection.

Flying blind amidst heavy fog is a dangerous proposition,” one economist said about the risks of a lapse in official ...

President Donald Trump and others in his administration have taken aim at the Labor Department's jobs and inflation reports, ...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” And facts are ...

The U.S. government shut down much of its operations on Wednesday after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach an ...

Policymakers have entered uncharted territory without employment data that the government withheld because of its shutdown.

A new report urges the Department of Education to implement standards that improve data collection for American Indian and Alaska Native students. The Trump administration may derail this work. Native ...

Federal government staffing shortages from Trump administration hiring freezes have forced the Labor Department’s economic statistics arm to curtail the breadth of its data collection for one of the ...