President Donald Trump is making a concerted effort to put MAGA loyalists in charge of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

One of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers strongly suggested Wednesday that an economic report was “manipulated politically” to help Barack Obama win reelection in 2012. Kevin Hassett, ...

In case you had any doubt that it’s Donald “Economy Butcher” Trump who’s really trying to rig the economic numbers.

The U.S. economy is teetering on the edge of recession, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, who ...

What we know about the suspect arrested in the deaths of an abandoned Tennessee baby’s family members ...

President Obama crushed Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election with or without the Bureau of Labor Statistics report, but there's never a bad day for a new conspiracy promoted by the Trump ...

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Aug. 1, 2025, the day a poor jobs report ...

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.

I’m a numbers person, and I know this job market math can be really geeky. With that warning stated, here’s what my trusty spreadsheet found looking at the BLS’s own tracking of revisions. The ...

In the 21st century, U.S. economic data has become embedded in the life of the nation. It determines increases in Social Security benefits for retirees, influences the purchases of auto and home ...

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