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 ...

While there is much at play in determining the country’s employment levels, there is much lower immigration now than when ...

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

Trump had previously touted the May and June jobs reports as proof he was 'revitalizing the American economy.' The revised data bursts those boasts.

Whether to trust the economic data is the big question for many investors.

A growing number of Republicans on Capitol Hill are expressing unease about the state of the U.S. economy, as a disappointing jobs report coincides with President Trump’s latest tariff hikes on ...

Recent payroll revisions have highlighted the challenges facing U.S. statistics agencies. Politics isn’t the issue, ...