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

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

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 ...

President Donald Trump unexpectedly summoned reporters to the Oval Office on Thursday to present them with charts that he ...

Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...

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

President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a recent report, which also slashed June's new ...

PROVIDENCE — US Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a weaker-than-expected ...

Revised employment figures from the BLS revealed a significant slowdown in hiring, prompting concerns about the US economy's ...