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

President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census that would ...

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 ...

When you go to the dentist, you usually spend most of the visit with the dental hygienist, whose role has expanded in recent ...

President Donald Trump's tantrum over the weak jobs numbers and termination of the Bureau of Labor Statistics director is in ...

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

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CBO, and the Fed are far from perfect. But the U.S. needs a statistical system that is modern, agile, and protected from political interference.

After a rough July jobs report, Trump promptly fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming without evidence that the data was “rigged” to hurt him.

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

Trump has argued that tariffs are an effective tool to incentivize manufacturing goods in the U.S. as well as protecting jobs ...