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

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 ...

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Revised employment figures from the BLS revealed a significant slowdown in hiring, prompting concerns about the US economy's ...

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...

President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a recent report, which slashed June's new ...

Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Tuesday tore apart President Donald Trump for firing the head of the Bureau of Labor ...

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