Mortgage rates fell to their lowest levels since March because job growth has been surprisingly weak this summer.The 30-year ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CBO, and the Fed are far from perfect. But the U.S. needs a statistical system that is ...

Last week, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics was abruptly fired, just hours after releasing a disappointing jobs ...

After a rough July jobs report, Trump promptly fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming without evidence that the data was “rigged” to hurt him.

President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change how the Census Bureau collects data, seeking to ...

I n the annals of the American presidency, Donald Trump has almost certainly complained more about journalists than any of ...

Trump has argued that tariffs are an effective tool to incentivize manufacturing goods in the U.S. as well as protecting jobs ...

USAFacts, the nonpartisan non-profit organization led by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, rarely weighs in on political controversies. But the firestorm surrounding the firing of the nation’s top ...

USAFacts, the nonpartisan nonprofit founded by Steve Ballmer, warns against politicizing government data after Trump fires the BLS chief over weak jobs numbers, raising concerns about data integrity ...

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

Treasury Secretary Bessent defended President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head Erika McEntarfer after unprecedented downward revisions to May and June jobs figures ...

Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over an inconvenient jobs report will make it harder to build a dynamic ...