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USAFacts, the nonpartisan nonprofit founded by Steve Ballmer, warns against politicizing government data after Trump fires ...
How exactly does the BLS assemble the critical jobs report? And what is the commissioner’s role? Here’s what we know.
Treasury Secretary Bessent defended President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head Erika McEntarfer after unprecedented downward revisions to May and June jobs figures ...
Congressman Don Bacon expresses concern that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are beginning to weigh on the economies of both ...
President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a recent report, which slashed June's new construction jobs by 90%.
The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits ticked up to the highest level in a month last week ...
Higher competition for fewer roles remains the status quo for biopharma professionals, based on BioSpace data. Additionally, ...
Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically ...
Last week, President Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in apparent retaliation for weak jobs ...
Response rates to government surveys have plummeted since COVID, but experts say that doesn't mean the numbers are wrong ...
A much smaller group of a dozen or fewer people then prepare the employment report. They lock the numbers into the BLS system and on the Wednesday before the report is published, the commissioner is ...