Trump’s reaction to July’s jobs report created a whole new controversy. Can Congress’ new normal be disrupted? Plus, KCRW ...

"The mindset of the market is to embrace risk because that brings rewards rather than losses -- keep shrugging it off," Steve ...

The recent revisions downward were unusually large, but there are many factors that require updating numbers, and rigging the data would be difficult.

By all means, President Donald Trump had good reason to fire a Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner who failed to solve ...

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?

During an Oval Office meeting, pro-Trump economist Steve Moore said the president made the right call to fire the head of Bureau of Labor Statistics given faulty jobs projections.

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.

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 ...

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

Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...