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The president attempted to tell a different story about the U.S. economy than what the latest job report revealed. President ...
Mortgage rates fell to their lowest levels since March because job growth has been surprisingly weak this summer.
President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said there must be better ways to collect employment data after President Trump fired the ...
Trump abruptly fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday after the release of the report, ...
President Trump’s pick to run the federal agency that produces the critical U.S. jobs report might not be able to make it ...
Response rates to government surveys have plummeted since COVID, but experts say that doesn't mean the numbers are wrong ...
How exactly does the BLS assemble the critical jobs report? And what is the commissioner’s role? Here’s what we know.
Elon Musk’s DOGE may have completed much of its work in the federal bureaucracy, but the trickle-down effect from Musk’s ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ leader compounds a yearslong struggle to modernize methods and maintain ...