President Donald Trump has summoned reporters to the Oval Office to present charts that he says shows the economy is solid.

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

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a jobs report that upended the narrative pundits, journalists, government ...

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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 ...

In the Oval Office, where journalists were convened for a “major” announcement, Trump and economist Stephen Moore of the ...

Donald Trump ushered reporters into the Oval Office today to make them listen to a presentation given by Steve Moore from the Heritage Foundation—the authors of Project 2025. According to "data" that ...

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 ...

Revisions are a normal part of the jobs report process. After the report comes out, revisions are later released to include ...

Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...