Hawaiʻi's data analysts say it's important to understand the state's dependence on national statistics amid growing concerns ...

President Donald Trump unexpectedly summoned reporters to the Oval Office on Thursday to present them with charts that he ...

President Trump sought to celebrate his new tariff regime and reassure the public about his economic stewardship on Thursday as a trade agenda upending the GOP and the global economic order came ...

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically ...

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

President Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics director Erika McEntarfer following July’s jobs report has sparked controversy over the reliability of government employment data. Trump claimed ...

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 ...

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