From climate data, to budget forecasts, to intelligence reports, President Trump has challenged sources of data within his administration. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Peter Baker of the New York Times.

Statistics on private sector jobs from ADP and BLS are highly correlated. Since the start of ADP’s series in 2010, the R 2 for the two national private sector employment reports is 0.9817 (when ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Erica Groshen, former head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about employment data and what politicization of the agency could do to future numbers. The U.S. Bureau ...

With the government closed and official data collection on hold, economists on Wall Street and beyond are scrambling to find new sources of information — or any clues, really — on what might be ...

Britain's Office for National Statistics plans to release less data on health, crime and regional development next year to ...

The federal government shutdown canceled a second straight jobs report, but private data sources suggest the labor market has ...

As China continues to tighten information flows in and out of the country, how reliable are statistics from official Chinese sources? Recent media pieces have highlighted the deepening lack of ...

The delayed release of the BLS report has led to fearmongering about the economy's ability to function. Leila Fadel, host of NPR's Up First, said on Friday that "businesses and policymakers are flying ...