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

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Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...

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 ...

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President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a recent report, which also slashed June's new ...

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

Revised employment figures from the BLS revealed a significant slowdown in hiring, prompting concerns about the US economy's ...

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 ...

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