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

Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...

But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...

Elon Musk’s DOGE may have completed much of its work in the federal bureaucracy, but the trickle-down effect from Musk’s ...

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly revises its estimates based on survey responses from thousands of US employers. Here ...

The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in ...

Trump responded by doing what Trump does: goes ballistic, acts impulsively, attacks the messenger, and spews falsehoods.

The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).

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 ...