President Donald Trump unexpectedly summoned reporters to the Oval Office on Thursday to present them with charts that he says show the U.S. economy is solid following a jobs report last week that ...

Of course the Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) is wrong about levels of employment or lack thereof. How could it be right?

President Donald Trump unexpectedly summoned reporters to the Oval Office on Thursday to present them with charts that he ...

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers still retaining workers ...

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

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 ...