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New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers still retaining workers ...
Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.
Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.
The numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had forecasted. But the real surprise came in the revisions to data from May and June, ...