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 has instructed the Commerce Department to change the way the Census Bureau collects data, seeking to ...

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.

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

Employment growth slowed and the unemployment rate rose in July, and new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a ...

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

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

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

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