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

Canning the labor chief will make jobs statistics less trustworthy, but authoritarians thrive in a world of blurred fact and ...

Federal Reserve Gov. Adriana Kugler’s surprise resignation handed President Donald Trump a prime opportunity to name an eventual replacement for Jerome Powell.

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

Trump confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declined the role, saying, “I want to work with you,” while market-watchers ...

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 ...

Many House Republicans have taken that advice. Of the 35 House Republicans who hold seats that Democrats are targeting in ...

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, ...

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

Donald Trump has, since he first returned to the White House in January, been on a steady march towards authoritarianism, and took another big leap in that direction last Friday when he fired ...

I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was ...