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 ...

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Mortgage rates have decreased this week, reaching an average of 6.75%, the lowest since April. Bankrate reported this drop, highlighting its connection to recent weak job rating numbers.

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

President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change the way the Census Bureau collects data, seeking to exclude people who are in the United States illegally.

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

USAFacts, the nonpartisan nonprofit founded by Steve Ballmer, warns against politicizing government data after Trump fires ...

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

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 ...