Opinion: The flexibility of the U.S. labor market means that it has shrugged off many waves of technological change.

On Friday, August 1, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) delivered a disappointing jobs report. And President Donald ...

Trump's firing of BLS chief Erika McEntarfer over labor statistics could backfire as a potential recession looms.

Economists and Wall Street investors have long considered the job figures reliable, with share prices and bond yields often ...

"Firing the labor statistician delivering the data is akin to breaking the thermometer because of a heat wave," John Rash writes.

Trump’s knee-jerk response to troublesome data is to deny it. He has eliminated climate change and disease statistics that contradict his views.

Big question marks still loom for the Fed, and while the jobs report last Friday was weak, the unemployment rate remains low.