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 ...

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

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

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

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

Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...

President Trump, unhappy with the latest economic data, fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's bad news.

The former labor secretary calls Bureau of Labor Statistics “crown jewel” of government efforts to explain the economy.

The BLS jobs survey is widely considered by economists to be robust. It samples more than 100,000 businesses and government ...