Founded in 1884, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has faced many controversies over its history. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover forced its commissioner to retire rather than waive a newly created age ...

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While the broader economy technically expanded, consumer-facing sectors cut 1000s of jobs in June.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Following a disappointing jobs report on Friday, President Donald Trump fired the Bureau of Labor ...

For the first time, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been fired by the President of the United States for political reasons, launching the $30 trillion economy into uncharted and ...

A drop in the unemployment rate helped provide some upside to what was an otherwise downbeat jobs report — but it was for all ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...

With hot-button topics like immigration, abortion, voters’ rights, and diversity and inclusion issues already inflaming political discourse ahead of November’s elections, nobody needed additional ...

In addition to parsing the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly Jobs Report, anyone who wants to know which jobs are hot and which are not can consult a more forward-looking dataset: BLS’s annual job ...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is once again under scrutiny after closely watched job market data due for public release on Wednesday was inexplicably delayed but still found ...