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Although the U.S. saw disappointing results for employment in June, the healthcare sector saw reasonable gains that could potentially point to continued growth. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released ...
The BLS jobs survey is widely considered by economists to be robust. It samples more than 100,000 businesses and government ...
The former labor secretary calls Bureau of Labor Statistics “crown jewel” of government efforts to explain the economy.
July employment is up 1.0% from last July. The year-over-year change in employment has been running between 1.0% and 1.3% ...
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).
Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...
Investing in reliable data and the people who collect it is a foundation for smart decisions, according to Moody's Mark Zandi ...
Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi warned that the U.S. economy is on the precipice of recession as weak jobs data and rising ...
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Jobs, data and democracy

The July jobs report released last Friday wasn’t pretty. It showed weaker than anticipated U.S. job growth in July, and there were substantial downward revisions of jobs numbers for May and June as ...