Donald Trump has, since he first returned to the White House in January, been on a steady march towards authoritarianism, and took another big leap in that direction last Friday when he fired ...

By ROBERT REICH I spent much of the 1990s as Secretary of Labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor ...

I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was ...

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...

Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.

The jobs report that McEntarfer's agency released that day showed that hiring was largely flat during Trump's first quarter ...

Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a disappointing jobs report is ...

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

The Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly revises its estimates based on survey responses from thousands of US employers. Here ...

State suicide prevention efforts are lacking amid federal cuts What’s known and not yet known about the Justice Department’s ...

On Friday, after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing weak July hiring numbers and significant downward ...