The Bureau of Labor Statistics is cutting back its collection of data on consumer prices, raising questions about the reliability of federal economic statistics under President Donald Trump. Every ...

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 ...

The Labor Department's Office of Inspector General said it is reviewing the "challenges" that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is facing in its data-collection efforts. The probe comes in light of BLS ...

Statistics Amendment Act ushers new era for data collection The implementation of the Statistics Amendment Act by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has opened a new era of data collection and ...

Meteorological data collected by some weather balloons has been halted. Statistics for HIV among transgender people were scrubbed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. And ...

The BIS has been collecting and disseminating information on debt securities issues in domestic and international markets since the late 1980s. Statistics are collected for more than 50 economies.

There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists ...

President Trump is expected to nominate a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, days after firing Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of a disappointing jobs report.

A coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging a ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Lynette Duncan ...

What matters more: actual economic performance or the perception of it? Fundamentals clearly influence public opinion: if the economy is growing rapidly, people tend to notice. Yet perception can both ...