The Latest Breaking News from Erika McEntarfer

Data shows the headline unemployment rate continued to climb and hit 4.6%, a four-year high, last month

The Labor Department said Wednesday that it will not be releasing a full jobs report for October because the 43-day federal government shutdown meant it couldn’t calculate the unemployment rate and some other key numbers

There is heightened concern about the future of key government statistics, including politicization and accuracy.

Erika McEntarfer says Americans should be concerned about independence of key economic institutions

spoke out about her public firing in a talk for the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College

Erika McEntarfer, the former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), who President Donald Trump fired in August, made her first public remarks on Tuesday, fiercely defending the integrity of the nation’s economic data and warning of the severe consequences of political interference.

Ken Griffin warns Trump’s pressure on Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve risks eroding U.S. institutional credibility.

Private-sector payroll growth halves in August as layoffs surge, marking highest job cuts since 2020.

EJ Antoni, a Heritage Foundation economist, allegedly used social media platform to dish out abuse and entertain conspiracy theories