Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically ...

PROVIDENCE — US Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a weaker-than-expected ...

President Donald Trump's tantrum over the weak jobs numbers and termination of the Bureau of Labor Statistics director is in ...

How exactly does the BLS assemble the critical jobs report? And what is the commissioner’s role? Here’s what we know.

Treasury Secretary Bessent defended President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head Erika McEntarfer after unprecedented downward revisions to May and June jobs figures ...

Response rates to government surveys have plummeted since COVID, but experts say that doesn't mean the numbers are wrong ...

The numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had ...

President Trump’s firing last week of the head of the United States’ Bureau of Labor Statistics is straight out of the ...

House Democrats asked for a congressional hearing on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer.

New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...

Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...

Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...