After weak employment data, President Trump criticized the BLS and fired its commissioner, claiming job numbers were rigged.

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

President Donald Trump has a pattern of dismissing or altering data that reflects poorly on him. During his first term, he ...

Economists and Wall Street investors have long considered the job figures reliable, with share prices and bond yields often ...

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 ...

The BLS surveys both households and businesses for its monthly jobs report. After releasing an initial report, it's common for the agency to issue revisions to the prior monthly figures, as more ...

But, BLS reports like the monthly jobs report (officially known as the Employment Situation Summary) and JOLTS (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary) have drawbacks as well.

For that, The Conference Board has its Employment Trends Index. It comes out just after the BLS jobs report and crunches together a bunch of data points to try to anticipate what’s coming.

That’s just one of the eye-opening findings in MyPerfectResume’s latest analysis of January 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, which looked at which states offer the strongest job ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its jobs report for June which showed U.S. employers added 147,000 jobs last month as the labor market weathered economic uncertainty.

The BLS' monthly jobs report showed a slight uptick over May's 139,000 increase. The estimate for the July report was 110,000 nonfarm jobs added.