Most economists say that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a nonpolitical agency staffed by people obsessed with getting the ...

The policy-sensitive two-year Treasury yield fell to a three-month low of 3.659% on Monday as traders heavily upped bets of a Fed cut in September, while the benchmark 10-year yield strayed not too ...

President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled one of his simmering resentments: the statistician overseeing the ...

WASHINGTON: The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new ...

CONGRESSIONAL RECESS: Members of Congress have headed home for their summer recess. Several lawmakers are holding town halls ...

Two victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, ripped the federal government for appearing to be more ...

WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump said on Monday (Aug 4) that he would pick an "exceptional replacement" to his labour statistics chief - after ordering her dismissal ...

In firing the head of the agency that produces monthly jobs figures, President Donald Trump alleged that the recent ...

President Trump told reporters Sunday he plans to announce a new commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in the next three or four days after he fired the previous BLS leader in the wake ...

President Donald Trump thrust the nation's system for economic data collection into the spotlight in recent days after he ...

President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing her mishandling of the nation's jobs data.

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