Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically ...

PROVIDENCE — US Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a weaker-than-expected ...

President Donald Trump's tantrum over the weak jobs numbers and termination of the Bureau of Labor Statistics director is in ...

This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.

How exactly does the BLS assemble the critical jobs report? And what is the commissioner’s role? Here’s what we know.

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

Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...

The data influences how much people pay in taxes, receive in retirement benefits and even how much they earn on some ...

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

President Trump has said he will choose a new Commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics within the next three to four ...

President Trump’s decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer is unlikely to benefit the ...