Founded in 1884, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has faced many controversies over its history. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover forced its commissioner to retire rather than waive a newly created age ...

Since Monday is Labor Day here’s a look at the federal department that was created to study labor and give the American people statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is an agency of the U. S.

The Department of Labor's internal watchdog is launching a review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) approach to collecting and reporting economic data. Laura Nicolosi, assistant inspector ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics will completely "cease operations"and suspend data collection in the event of a U.S. federal government shutdown, the Department of Labor said on Monday in its ...

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 ...

The data were released after being delayed by the government shutdown, which resulted in crucial reports being postponed or canceled outright.

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner after low jobs numbers. He criticized Dr. Erika McEntarfer, appointed by Biden, for what he called inaccurate job data. The US added 73,000 jobs ...

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 ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday blasted the Labor Department’s annual jobs revisions, which revealed the U.S. added hundreds of thousands fewer jobs than first thought – the largest correction on ...

President Trump fired the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official after the government published new data showing that U.S. hiring slowed sharply this summer. Trump said BLS Commissioner Erika ...

A government agency best known for its number-crunching prowess became the target of the president’s criticism last week when a federal jobs report was revised to show a less-than-rosy economic ...