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.

President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a recent report, which also slashed June's new ...

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits ticked up to the highest level in a month last week ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, stating, without ...

As with the BLS, a lack of resources is one problem. In his February testimony, Diamond said the surge in inflation from 2021 had forced the ONS to make big savings in order to cover pay rises that ...

President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a widely respected economist ...

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

The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...

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