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 ...

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 ...

The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...

The data influences how much people pay in taxes, receive in retirement benefits and even how much they earn on some ...

Why do revisions to the jobs report happen? Today on the show, we speak with a former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics about why revisions occur and how we should interpret the monthly ...