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President Donald Trump has summoned reporters to the Oval Office to present charts that he says shows the economy is solid.
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a jobs report that upended the narrative pundits, journalists, government ...
Response rates to government surveys have plummeted since COVID, but experts say that doesn't mean the numbers are wrong ...
How exactly does the BLS assemble the critical jobs report? And what is the commissioner’s role? Here’s what we know.
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
A much smaller group of a dozen or fewer people then prepare the employment report. They lock the numbers into the BLS system and on the Wednesday before the report is published, the commissioner is ...
PROVIDENCE — US Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a weaker-than-expected ...
Of course the Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) is wrong about levels of employment or lack thereof. How could it be right?
Revisions are a normal part of the jobs report process. After the report comes out, revisions are later released to include ...
Mortgage rates fell to their lowest levels since March because job growth has been surprisingly weak this summer.