It only took a few hours for President Donald Trump to call for the firing of a top Bureau of Labor Statistics official after a weaker-than-expected jobs report called into question the strength of ...

The U.S. economy had 7.2 million job openings in August, the same as in July, suggesting the economy remains in low-hiring, low-firing mode. While employers have avoided mass layoffs, it's become ...

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Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su sits down with theGrio’s “The Hill with April Ryan” to discuss the latest jobs numbers. Su tells theGrio the Black unemployment rate is particularly seeing better ...

President Trump said Sunday that he would announce a new commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics “over the next three, four days” after he fired the head of the agency last week over a gloomy ...

President Donald Trump said Friday that he has fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, just hours after new employment numbers produced by the agency showed major downward revisions from ...

The job market weakened sharply during the late spring and early summer as President Trump's tariffs began to take effect — and Trump responded by calling for the firing of a key labor statistician. U ...