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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 ...
Congressman Don Bacon expresses concern that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are beginning to weigh on the economies of both ...
In August 2025, revised job figures and tech sector layoffs signal economic challenges, particularly for Indian H-1B visa ...
President Donald Trump's recent phone interview with CNBC was filled with lies about his jobs report and racism towards migrants.
President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a recent report, which also slashed June's new ...
The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits ticked up to the highest level in a month last week ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government product is shaken, things go off-the-rails in short order; just look at ...
Bessent trashed the “corrupted” BLS Thursday as he defended Trump’s decision to sack the agency’s head over job reporting revisions, calling the work “lazy.” ...
Last week, President Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in apparent retaliation for weak jobs ...
Steve Bannon, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump in his first term and an influential voice in conservative circles, is pushing for EJ Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics.“I’ve told ...
Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically ...
Response rates to government surveys have plummeted since COVID, but experts say that doesn't mean the numbers are wrong ...