Trump had previously touted the May and June jobs reports as proof he was 'revitalizing the American economy.' The revised data bursts those boasts.

The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...

(CNN) — The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in charge of producing it. But economists haven’t forgotten about ...

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

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

An expansionary budget bill, rapidly shifting tariff rates, and attempts to influence interest rates will benefit certain interests. But is the average American really one of them?

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 ...

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 ...