Mr. Baker is a rising sophomore at Stanford University. At its daily student newspaper, he won a George Polk Award for investigating allegations of manipulated experimental data in scientific papers ...

Investor concerns about manipulation of the consumer-price index may be exaggerated. Such concerns have grown since President Donald Trump fired the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after ...

After President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economists and statisticians across the board were horrified. Because the firing raises the spectre of potential manipulation – ...