President Trump on Friday said he planned to fire the commissioner of the BLS, which publishes the monthly jobs report.

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 ...

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

President Donald Trump continues to claim without evidence that the jobs report was "totally rigged." ...

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

USAFacts, the nonpartisan nonprofit founded by Steve Ballmer, warns against politicizing government data after Trump fires ...

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

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

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

When the economic news is bad, Trump thinks he can just shoot the messenger. Here’s how the firing played out, as well as ...

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