The trustworthiness of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) data on inflation, employment, wages, productivity, and consumer spending has historically been a concern only for cranks and conspiracy ...

Two federal reports posted Tuesday (May 12) show a clear squeeze on the consumer, with higher energy, food and housing prices ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics usually collects data in real time. So it may not be able to capture October prices or jobs data that was missed during the shutdown. The Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

Jobs facing steep cuts: BLS projects sharp declines in roles like bank tellers (-13%), cashiers (-10%), and data entry clerks (-26%) over the next decade. Automation’s growing impact: AI and ...

The processes used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to collect data for the jobs report have been under scrutiny after last week's disappointing jobs report, and one of the agency's former ...

The Labor Department's Office of Inspector General said it is reviewing the "challenges" that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is facing in its data-collection efforts. The probe comes in light of BLS ...

Statisticians railed against President Trump on Friday following his decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner Erika McEntarfer for “inaccuracies” and “incompetence” after ...

The recent release of revised employment statistics — in which 911,000 jobs thought to have been created over the course of a year seemingly vanished — sharpened the debate over how well President Joe ...

A proposed rule affecting federal workers “opens the door” for reporting data in ways that don’t align with established norms. At Marketplace, we do the numbers every weekday. Much of the data we ...

The count of payroll jobs is likely to be 911,000 lower than previously thought after revisions are made, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. The agency, which has been under fire from ...

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