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How exactly does the BLS assemble the critical jobs report? And what is the commissioner’s role? Here’s what we know.
Response rates to government surveys have plummeted since COVID, but experts say that doesn't mean the numbers are wrong ...
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
Fed Governor Lisa Cook said that the weak July jobs report and large downward revisions suggest the U.S. economy could be at ...
President Donald Trump's reaction to the latest jobs report, which showed a significant slowdown in hiring, has been met with ...
The numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had forecasted. But the real surprise came in the revisions to data from May and June, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change the way the Census Bureau collects ...
Trump has argued that tariffs are an effective tool to incentivize manufacturing goods in the U.S. as well as protecting jobs ...
Revised employment figures from the BLS revealed a significant slowdown in hiring, prompting concerns about the US economy's ...
I n the annals of the American presidency, Donald Trump has almost certainly complained more about journalists than any of ...