Last week, President Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in apparent retaliation for weak jobs ...

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers still retaining workers ...

Recurring applications for unemployment benefits surged to the highest since November 2021, adding to recent signs that the ...

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits ticked higher last week, suggesting the labor ...

Ongoing unemployment claim filings have continued to move higher in a sign Americans are taking longer to find new work.

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 ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended President Donald Trump’s firing of the head of the agency that reports US labor data hours after an unexpectedly weak jobs report, saying a revamp was long ...

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits ticked up to the highest level in a month last week ...

President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change the way the Census Bureau collects data, seeking to ...

Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.

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