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

USAFacts, the nonpartisan group founded by Steve Ballmer, warns against politicizing government data after Trump fires the ...

Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.

President Donald Trump continues to claim without evidence that the jobs report was "totally rigged." ...

While the downward revision of May and June payroll growth by 258,000 marked the largest two-month downward revision to the ...

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday after a new jobs report showed a ...

Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers ...

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said there must be better ways to collect employment data after President Trump fired the ...

President Trump’s pick to run the federal agency that produces the critical U.S. jobs report might not be able to make it ...

Trump's replacement of labor statistics head after bad report shouldn't hurt integrity of jobs numbers. But there may still ...