The firing comes after a report showed hiring slowed in July and was much weaker in May and June than previously reported.

The White House’s announcement Friday that it will impose hefty tariffs on imports from nearly 70 countries next week ...

Erika McEntarfer led the agency that produced key data on jobs and inflation. Then July’s report showed a weakening economy, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, a ...

The July jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised down the job growth seen in May and June by over 200,000 positions and gave a weaker than expected July estimate, leading President ...

President Trump’s economy reverberated this week amid tariff uncertainty, the weak job report on Friday and the subsequent firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner, Erika ...

Trump called for the firing of the Labor statistics official after data earlier showed employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, while job gains for the previous two months were largely erased.

Kugler was nominated by President Joe Biden and has served in her position since September 2023. According to the Fed, she ...

The dismissal of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer raises questions about the reliability of the data going forward.

Fox & Friends hosts pushed debunked claims that the BLS inflated jobs data to boost Biden, backing Trump’s firing of the agency's chief as justified.

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday after the agency released a jobs report that showed a ...