On Aug. 1, President Donald Trump took a step many economists had feared: firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nonpartisan agency that collects a wide range of closely watched ...

The former Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, on Tuesday made her first public remarks since she was fired by President Trump last month following a poor jobs report and ...

"There are better ways to collect, process, and disseminate data—that is the task for the next BLS commissioner, and only consistent delivery of accurate data in a timely manner will rebuild the trust ...

The processes used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to collect data for the jobs report have been under scrutiny after last week's disappointing jobs report, and one of the agency's former ...

The recent release of revised employment statistics — in which 911,000 jobs thought to have been created over the course of a year seemingly vanished — sharpened the debate over how well President Joe ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics last week issued a steep downward revision to May and June's hiring numbers, prompting President Trump to call the edits "miscalculations" by the department's ...

The Labor Department's internal watchdog on Wednesday announced an audit into the challenges faced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in collecting data for its inflation and labor market reports ...

Hours before President Donald Trump fired former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer this month, E.J. Antoni appeared on former White House strategist Steve Bannon’s podcast to ...

In a striking example of partisan storytelling overtaking statistical reality, Fox & Friends Weekend leaned hard into the idea that the Bureau of Labor Statistics manipulated jobs data during the ...

From skirt lengths to satellite images to a blockchain tracker, here are 11 quirky and serious indicators you can use to sanity-check the new inflation and employment numbers. In 2025, trust in ...