A much smaller group of a dozen or fewer people then prepare the employment report. They lock the numbers into the BLS system and on the Wednesday before the report is published, the commissioner is ...

Bureau of Labor Statistics faces scrutiny over data collection methods following disappointing July jobs report that missed economist estimates by 37,000 positions.

US President Donald Trump labelled the latest US jobs report as "rigged" following significant downward revisions to May and ...

Trump’s outburst over a bad jobs report is the second-term equivalent of his furious insistence in 2017 that more than a ...

While the downward revision of May and June payroll growth by 258,000 marked the largest two-month downward revision to the ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday after a new jobs report showed a ...

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said there must be better ways to collect employment data after President Trump fired the ...

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

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

Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer oversaw a July jobs report that the president claims was rigged ...

President Trump fired the BLS chief after a poor jobs report, amid concerns of meddling in economic data reporting and issues ...