Employment growth slowed and the unemployment rate rose in July, and new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change the way the Census Bureau collects ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CBO, and the Fed are far from perfect. But the U.S. needs a statistical system that is ...

Last week, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics was abruptly fired, just hours after releasing a disappointing jobs ...

After a rough July jobs report, Trump promptly fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming without evidence that the data was “rigged” to hurt him.

I n the annals of the American presidency, Donald Trump has almost certainly complained more about journalists than any of ...

Trump has argued that tariffs are an effective tool to incentivize manufacturing goods in the U.S. as well as protecting jobs ...

USAFacts, the nonpartisan non-profit organization led by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, rarely weighs in on political controversies. But the firestorm surrounding the firing of the nation’s top ...

USAFacts, the nonpartisan nonprofit founded by Steve Ballmer, warns against politicizing government data after Trump fires the BLS chief over weak jobs numbers, raising concerns about data integrity ...

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