Any changes in the conduct of a national census would require alterations to the Census Act and approval from Congress.

An Oval Office event the White House billed as a “major announcement on the economy” by President Donald Trump turned out to ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday instructed the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census ...

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Thursday also brought labor productivity data for the second quarter. How much economic output the average worker creates was ...

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

The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims for the week ending Aug. 2 rose by 7,000 to 226,000, slightly more ...

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces the Consumer Price Index, used to calculated everything from 401(k) contribution ...

Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big ...