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

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

Response rates to government surveys have plummeted since COVID, but experts say that doesn't mean the numbers are wrong ...

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 ...

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

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

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 numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had ...

Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.

New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...