Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...

President Trump on Friday accused the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Erika McEntarfer of faking jobs numbers, ...

Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that ...

Top White House economic advisers on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor ...

President Donald Trump didn’t like the latest job numbers and revisions to the May and June statistics, so he just fired the chief of the […] ...

President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer just hours after a disappointing jobs report, accusing her—without evidence—of ...

News about Bureau of Labor Statistics, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The Labor Department, citing budget deficits and claiming poor results, said that it was halting contracts on the 99 private-contractor-operated sites under its purview.

Checking Trump admin claim native-born workers accounted for all job gains in first half of 2025 The Department of Labor's graphic used non-seasonally adjusted data.

Around 103,000 women aged 20 and over exited the labor force in June, while 163,000 men in the same age group entered.

The Department of Labor announced on July 7 that it will continue a program that allows tens of thousands of disabled workers to hold jobs that pay less than the federal minimum wage.

July 18, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) – The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported that the unemployment rate in Virginia rose again in June, to 3.5 percent. The BLS report notes that ...