(ThyBlackMan.com) The Bureau of Labor Statistics economists (BLS) announced the most comprehensive unemployment rate, for July is 7.9%, the U-6 category rate from the Table of Alternative Measures of ...

A proposed rule affecting federal workers “opens the door” for reporting data in ways that don’t align with established norms. At Marketplace, we do the numbers every weekday. Much of the data we ...

Economist and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers’s response to the news: Firing the head of a key government agency because you don’t like the numbers they report, which come from surveys using ...

The U.S. Department of Labor building is seen behind a sign marking the location of the agency's headquarters on March 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images) Organizations ...

The former Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, on Tuesday made her first public remarks since she was fired by President Trump last month following a poor jobs report and ...

President Donald Trump has fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he accused, without evidence, of manipulating the monthly jobs reports for “political ...

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the July jobs report showed little growth. WSJ’s Chief Economics Commentator Greg Ip explains ...

U.S. employers are adding far fewer jobs than initially tallied, in the latest sign that the labor market may be weaker than expected, according to a preliminary report from the Labor Department on ...

“Today, the BLS released the largest downward revision on record proving that President Trump was right: Biden’s economy was a disaster and the BLS is broken. This is exactly why we need new ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics won’t publish an October employment report, and instead will incorporate those payrolls figures into the November report set to be published after the Federal Reserve’s ...