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Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
President Donald Trump continues to claim without evidence that the jobs report was "totally rigged." ...
President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.
While the downward revision of May and June payroll growth by 258,000 marked the largest two-month downward revision to the ...
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said there must be better ways to collect employment data after President Trump fired the ...
Elon Musk’s DOGE may have completed much of its work in the federal bureaucracy, but the trickle-down effect from Musk’s ...
When the economic news is bad, Trump thinks he can just shoot the messenger. Here’s how the firing played out, as well as ...
Plus: Markets plunge amid jobs, tariff uncertainty … Ghislaine Maxwell transferred … Public broadcasting takes ...
The president has not commented on his policy priorities—including immigration, government efficiency, trade, and AI ...
Economists say firing a top official for revisions to a jobs report sends a bad message and could destroy trust in data ...