President Trump's firing of the BLS director undermines trust in U.S. economic data, increasing uncertainty for investors ...

President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change how the Census Bureau collects data, seeking to ...

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers still retaining workers ...

I n the annals of the American presidency, Donald Trump has almost certainly complained more about journalists than any of ...

Trump has argued that tariffs are an effective tool to incentivize manufacturing goods in the U.S. as well as protecting jobs ...

Risks to the job market have increased, but it remains too soon to commit to interest rate cuts before the next meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve with key data still to come and inflation still ...

USAFacts, the nonpartisan nonprofit founded by Steve Ballmer, warns against politicizing government data after Trump fires the BLS chief over weak jobs numbers, raising concerns about data integrity ...

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

Treasury Secretary Bessent defended President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head Erika McEntarfer after unprecedented downward revisions to May and June jobs figures ...

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 ...

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...