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

USAFacts, the nonpartisan nonprofit founded by Steve Ballmer, warns against politicizing government data after Trump fires ...

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

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 ...

Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...

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

PROVIDENCE — US Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a weaker-than-expected ...

President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a recent report, which also slashed June's new ...

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

The numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had ...

President Trump's firing of the BLS director undermines trust in U.S. economic data, increasing uncertainty for investors.