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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 ...
President Donald Trump has summoned reporters to the Oval Office to present charts that he says shows the economy is solid.
The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits ticked up to the highest level in a month last week ...
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 Donald Trump has summoned reporters to the Oval Office to present charts that he says shows the economy is solid.
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 ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...