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

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

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.

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 ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' data does more than capture monthly job growth and inflation pressures_; it plays a crucial role in Americans’ financial lives, say Joe Pinsker, Heather Gillers and Ash ...

The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...