The numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had ...

House Democrats asked for a congressional hearing on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer.

Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...

A former Federal Reserve official gets candid about Trump’s firing of the BLS chief.

Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...

Like President Donald Trump, Americans are skeptical of economic data from the federal government, according to a new poll.

Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...

The BLS jobs survey is widely considered by economists to be robust. It samples more than 100,000 businesses and government ...