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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.
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.
President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...
President Donald Trump continues to claim without evidence that the jobs report was "totally rigged." ...
Trump abruptly fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday after the release of the report, ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
E lon Musk’s DOGE may have completed much of its work in the federal bureaucracy, but the trickle-down effect from Musk’s ...
President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer oversaw a July jobs report that the president claims was rigged ...