The Spokesman-Review

U.S. is trimming back its collection of consumer price data

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is cutting back its collection of data on consumer prices, raising questions about the reliability of federal economic statistics under President Donald Trump.
Khaberni

Statistics: The consumption basket during COVID-19 invalidated poverty line data

Khaberni - Haider Freihat, the Director General of the Department of Statistics, said on Monday that the reason for the delay ...
Marketplace

What happens to prices when data collection is cut?

Back in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced it was cutting back on some of its data collection, specifically, the kind that helps us understand what prices are looking like for ...

How the decline of economic data could end up with a lot of unemployed Americans

The quality and availability of economic data is declining. That could lead to a lot more unemployed Americans and increase ...

Trump Names ‘Data Nerd’ to Lead Labor Statistics Agency

The decision to nominate Brett Matsumoto, a career government economist, came six months after the president fired the ...
Waste Advantage Magazine

BLS Releases New Injury and Illness Data

David Biderman On January 22, 2026, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its 2024 occupational ...
The Hechinger Report on MSN

Trump’s admissions data collection strains college administrators

Lynette Duncan didn’t expect to spend 20 hours over the past two weeks digging through a mothballed computer system, trying to retrieve admissions data from 2019. Duncan is the director of ...

The State Of The $2.52 Trillion AI Bubble, January 2026

The explosion in data quantity has kept the marriage of computing and statistics thriving through successive hype cycles: ...
Devdiscourse

January inflation data to be based on new CPI series

The report has recommended the adoption of the latest Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose COICOP ...