A government agency best known for its number-crunching prowess became the target of the president’s criticism last week when a federal jobs report was revised to show a less-than-rosy economic ...

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of Labor plans to audit the Bureau of Labor Statistics' data collection and reporting. Photo by Bonnie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Isador Lubin, chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, presents data to a Senate committee in 1937. Library of Congress Founded in ...

The Department of Labor's internal watchdog is launching a review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) approach to collecting and reporting economic data. Laura Nicolosi, assistant inspector ...

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a "scam," accusing one of the top overseers of government statistics of cooking the ...

The office of the Labor Department’s inspector general said Wednesday it was initiating a review of challenges the Bureau of Labor Statistics faces in collecting and reporting US economic data ...

Founded in 1884, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has faced many controversies over its history. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover forced its commissioner to retire rather than waive a newly created age ...

The Trump administration stands on the cusp of something potentially transformative. If President Trump succeeds in unleashing a new era of energy abundance and securing America’s leadership in ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed an unsettling trend that Americans already suspected to be true: Grocery prices are ...