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

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Tuesday tore apart President Donald Trump for firing the head of the Bureau of Labor ...

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

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...

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

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

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

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

Revisions are a normal part of the jobs report process. After the report comes out, revisions are later released to include additional information not available at the time of the initial release. For ...

Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...

Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.