The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a disappointing jobs report he said was "RIGGED." While BLS faces data collection problems, monthly revisions to the job creation numbers ...

Economists on Thursday warned that a big drop in November inflation had more to do with data challenges caused by the government shutdown than with actual changes in the economy. Unfortunately, those ...

Last week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced the closest a Senate hearing can look like a firing squad. Kennedy’s firing of Centers for Disease Control Director Susan ...

An analysis of foodborne outbreak data collection in Austria has found issues with completeness and consistency. A report published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) shared results of a ...

Brisbane, Australia-based digital health company ResApp has been talking up its Smartcough-C study — a multisite, double-blind study of the company’s smartphone-based respiratory analysis software — ...

A new report urges the Department of Education to implement standards that improve data collection for American Indian and Alaska Native students. The Trump administration may derail this work. Native ...

My fantasy football team failed because of bad player stats. That’s when I got the garbage in, garbage out principle. It’s a big problem for analysts everywhere. This journal came from our need to ...

America is the gold standard for economic data — but that doesn't mean it's perfect. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was already facing problems before President Donald Trump fired ...

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