PROVIDENCE — US Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a weaker-than-expected ...

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 ...

Response rates to government surveys have plummeted since COVID, but experts say that doesn't mean the numbers are wrong ...

The numbers showed that the US economy added a modest 73,000 jobs in July, several thousand under what economists had ...

President Trump’s firing of Commissioner of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer last Friday brought into laser focus how willing he ...

President Donald Trump is the first president to fire the chief of a key government agency that produces the crucial U.S. jobs report. To hear President Donald Trump and his allies tell it, the ...

Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...

A former Federal Reserve official gets candid about Trump’s firing of the BLS chief.

Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...

House Democrats asked for a congressional hearing on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer.

President Donald Trump's tantrum over the weak jobs numbers and termination of the Bureau of Labor Statistics director is in ...

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically ...