Why we need to protect the reliability of, and public access to, what has traditionally been considered as public data.

(CNN) — President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled one of his simmering resentments: the statistician overseeing the ...

Fired by Trump last month, Erika McEntarfer raised the alarm on political meddling in economic data collection.

In non-shutdown times, the BLS would be collecting employment data this week. Not doing that could have economic implications ...