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 ...

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 ...

The processes used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to collect data for the jobs report have been under scrutiny after last week's disappointing jobs report, and one of the agency's former ...

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

The office of the Labor Department’s inspector general said Wednesday it was initiating a review of challenges the Bureau of Labor Statistics faces in collecting and reporting US economic data ...

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 ...

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

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

Awardees will work with the agency responsible for compiling statistics and analysis on all aspects of energy for the federal government. The Energy Department has awarded 14 companies positions on a ...