Thursday also brought labor productivity data for the second quarter. How much economic output the average worker creates was ...

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 ...

Treasury Secretary Bessent defended President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head Erika McEntarfer after unprecedented downward revisions to May and June jobs figures ...

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

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...

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

Risks to the job market have increased, but it remains too soon to commit to interest rate cuts before the next meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve with key data still to come and inflation still ...

An Oval Office event the White House billed as a “major announcement on the economy” by President Donald Trump turned out to ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday instructed the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census ...

The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims for the week ending Aug. 2 rose by 7,000 to 226,000, slightly more ...