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 ...

President Trump has fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, accusing her, with no evidence, of faking a jobs report that showed fewer gains than expected. The report last ...

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 ...

Budget constraints and workforce cuts have taken a toll on the Labor Department’s production of economic data. And that was before President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor ...

Annual revisions to nonfarm payrolls data for the year prior to March 2025 showed a drop of 911,000 from the initial estimate. The numbers, which are adjusted from data in the quarterly census and ...

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 ...

For months, headlines painted a picture of a resilient American labour market. But beneath the surface, a new revision by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just made the cracks visible. On Tuesday, ...

In the Morning Jolt yesterday, I wrote something I want to unpack a little more: It’s easy to armchair-quarterback the estimates after the fact, but if someone could produce a more accurate jobs ...