Recent payroll revisions have highlighted the challenges facing U.S. statistics agencies. Politics isn’t the issue, ...

The economist stated that rigging job numbers would be a complicated process, with whistleblowers most likely to flag any ...

By ROBERT REICH I spent much of the 1990s as Secretary of Labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor ...

I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was ...

I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was ...

The FBI’s crime statistics show the migrant-fueled crime wave Trump and Vance kept talking about during the campaign was a ...

Trump has falsely alleged that former BLS commissioner "faked" employment numbers before the 2024 election in order to better ...

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...

Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a disappointing jobs report is ...

President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing her mishandling of ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly revises its estimates based on survey responses from thousands of US employers. Here ...