The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits ticked higher last week, suggesting the labor market was largely stable even though job creation is weakening and it is taking ...

The numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had forecasted. But the real surprise came in the revisions to data from May and June, ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics carries reputational risks for the ...

House Democrats asked for a congressional hearing on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer.

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

President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a widely respected economist ...

New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...

Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.

We’ve all been there, in the middle of an objectively bad outcome, and had the same knee-jerk reaction: Blame someone else!

P resident Donald Trump says the U.S. economy is going great under his stewardship. The latest jobs numbers suggest a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will decide on a nominee to fill a coming vacancy on the Federal Reserve's ...