President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...

Some researchers are sounding the alarm over the official data sets that track crucial aspects of life in the United States, ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks prices and employment, faces scrutiny after several missteps. Some questions have gone unanswered. By Ben Casselman and Jeanna Smialek It has been a rough ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...

President Trump ordered his administration to fire the commissioner of labor statistics, Erika McEntarfer, after the July jobs report showed a sharp slowdown in hiring and a steep downward revision to ...

Statistics and science have been publicly slammed by some. The issues of climate change and COVID-19, in particular, have stirred accusations of bias, conspiracies, and even hoaxes (Philipp-Muller et ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Erica Groshen, former head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about employment data and what politicization of the agency could do to future numbers. The U.S. Bureau ...

For the first time, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been fired by the President of the United States for political reasons, launching the $30 trillion economy into uncharted and ...

Australia’s unemployment rate has risen to 4.3% in February, a 0.2% jump from January, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The increase in the number of ...