Employment growth slowed and the unemployment rate rose in July, and new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a ...

Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic said Thursday that he still expects the central bank to cut rates just once this year, despite growing signs that the labor market is losing steam and ...

The average retired household spends around $5,000 per month, with housing, healthcare, and food being the largest expense categories. With a median 401 (k) balance of $210,724, retirees relying on ...

President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change how the Census Bureau collects data, seeking to ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CBO, and the Fed are far from perfect. But the U.S. needs a statistical system that is ...

USAFacts, the nonpartisan nonprofit founded by Steve Ballmer, warns against politicizing government data after Trump fires the BLS chief over weak jobs numbers, raising concerns about data integrity ...

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically healthy range between 200,000 and 250,000 since COVID-19 throttled the economy ...

It’s a fair question — and one genuinely difficult to answer about a president who thrives on outrage and leans heavily into ...

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 ...

Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over an inconvenient jobs report will make it harder to build a dynamic ...