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On Friday, after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing weak July hiring numbers and significant downward ...
Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a disappointing jobs report is ...
President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly revises its estimates based on survey responses from thousands of US employers. Here ...
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...
President Donald Trump has claimed, without evidence, that the massive revisions in the latest jobs report constituted a ...
Like President Donald Trump, Americans are skeptical of economic data from the federal government, according to a new poll.
I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was ...
Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...
The former labor secretary calls Bureau of Labor Statistics “crown jewel” of government efforts to explain the economy.