The top job at Bureau of Labor Statistics typically goes to an economist experienced in govt or academia. Now it also requires the ability to walk a tightrope ...

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...

The data influences how much people pay in taxes, receive in retirement benefits and even how much they earn on some ...

Recent payroll revisions have highlighted the challenges facing U.S. statistics agencies. Politics isn’t the issue, ...

College educated Gen Zers are speeding toward a career cliff. But men, who dominate the struggling tech and business sectors, have it worse.

Trump had previously touted the May and June jobs reports as proof he was 'revitalizing the American economy.' The revised ...

Donald Trump has, since he first returned to the White House in January, been on a steady march towards authoritarianism, and took another big leap in that direction last Friday when he fired ...

The dollar remained stuck in its recent trading range on Wednesday, with investors choosing to stay on the sidelines after ...

Why do revisions to the jobs report happen? Today on the show, we speak with a former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics about why revisions occur and how we should interpret the monthly ...

I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was ...

Many lawmakers are skipping rowdy town halls this August. But Rep. Mike Flood of Nebraska said, "You got to put yourself in the town square if you want to be a member of Congress." ...

I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was ...