News

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...
President Donald Trump continues to claim without evidence that the jobs report was "totally rigged." ...
Elon Musk’s DOGE may have completed much of its work in the federal bureaucracy, but the trickle-down effect from Musk’s ...
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...
President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly revises its estimates based on survey responses from thousands of US employers. Here ...
Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Aug. 1, 2025, the day a poor jobs report ...
President Trump’s decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer is unlikely to benefit the ...
The top job at the Bureau of Labor Statistics typically goes to an economist experienced in government or academia. Now it ...
Opinion
Jobs, data and democracy
The July jobs report released last Friday wasn’t pretty. It showed weaker than anticipated U.S. job growth in July, and there were substantial downward revisions of jobs numbers for May and June as ...
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...