President Donald Trump unexpectedly summoned reporters to the Oval Office on Thursday to present them with charts that he ...

President Trump promoted his own version of reality in the Oval Office after firing the head of the agency that collects ...

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

Hawaiʻi's data analysts say it's important to understand the state's dependence on national statistics amid growing concerns ...

Donald Trump ushered reporters into the Oval Office today to make them listen to a presentation given by Steve Moore from the Heritage Foundation—the authors of Project 2025. According to "data" that ...

President Trump sought to celebrate his new tariff regime and reassure the public about his economic stewardship on Thursday as a trade agenda upending the GOP and the global economic order came ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...