A new poll of economists finds an overwhelming majority agree that the U.S. government’s official data on the economy is a big problem. As the Trump administration guts and otherwise interferes with ...

Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and the economy. Imagine living in a country where you can’t trust the government’s numbers. I don’t have to imagine it. I spent time ...

On this particular Friday, at 8:30 a.m. ET, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was supposed to release the September jobs report. Instead, the agency behind the market-moving release — data that has ...

The U.S. economy is losing jobs at the fastest pace since the pandemic, according to a pair of private-sector reports on the labor market released Thursday. The reports from Challenger, Gray & ...

In a press conference that accompanied the Fed’s decision to lower interest rates, Powell did not mince words regarding the reliability of current labor statistics. While official reports show ...

The digitization of everyday life has inundated us with more economic data than ever. And yet, government statistics on real economic conditions seem to be growing ever less reliable. Doubts began ...

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said a lack of official data while the US government is shut down will make it harder for central bankers to interpret the economy. Goolsbee ...

Seattle slugger Cal Raleigh this year matched what once stood as a signature baseball record: Babe Ruth’s 60 home runs for the 1927 Yankees. Roger Maris first surpassed Ruth’s record, hitting 61 ...

Every year, the Los Angeles Homelessness Services Authority (LAHSA) coordinates a volunteer-driven census of people living on the street. In the past two years, it’s gotten less accurate. At stake is ...

We're in the second month of the government shutdown, which means we're still not getting comprehensive economic survey data from federal agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).