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

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Donald Trump's firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner undermines the federal government's credibility.

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

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

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

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

Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.

One of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers strongly suggested Wednesday that an economic report was “manipulated politically” to help Barack Obama win reelection in 2012. Kevin Hassett, ...

In case you had any doubt that it’s Donald “Economy Butcher” Trump who’s really trying to rig the economic numbers.

In firing the head of the agency that produces monthly jobs figures, President Donald Trump alleged that the recent ...