BLS Cuts 76,000 Jobs From Initial October, November Estimates

Employment in October and November was 76,000 positions less than initially estimated, leading to an outright decline of ...

BLS defends housing calculations in November inflation report

The agency argued that it had no better way to handle a challenging patchwork of missing data caused by the recent government ...
Mediaite

Scott Bessent Trashes ‘Corrupted’ BLS as Joe Scarborough Defends Data Revisions: ‘Lazy!’

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent trashed the “corrupted” Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Thursday as he defended President Donald Trump’s decision to sack the agency’s head over job reporting ...
NPR

What's next after the BLS chief's firing? A former staffer weighs in

President Trump has fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, accusing her, with no evidence, of faking a jobs report that showed fewer gains than expected. The report last ...
Marketplace

How did the closely watched jobs report get its start?

Its technical name is the Employment Situation Summary. Business journalists call it the monthly jobs report. But it’s actually two reports, based on two different surveys. The Current Employment ...
Inc

With the BLS Shuttered, You Might Get Jobs Data From Private Companies

Employers have grappled with high levels of uncertainty for the past six months, as concerns about the effects of tariffs, mass deportations, and stalled job creation stoked confusion and doubt about ...
Politifact

Reduction of jobs by 911,000 puts spotlight on BLS and Biden’s legacy

The recent release of revised employment statistics — in which 911,000 jobs thought to have been created over the course of a year seemingly vanished — sharpened the debate over how well President Joe ...
The Hill

Why does the federal jobs report get revised?

Revisions to the jobs report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) are at the center of a political firestorm after President Trump fired the agency’s head earlier this month. The agency’s ...
The Hill

Statisticians blast Trump over BLS firing: ‘Dangerous precedent’

Statisticians railed against President Trump on Friday following his decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner Erika McEntarfer for “inaccuracies” and “incompetence” after ...
American Enterprise Institute

Details in BLS Report Suggest That Most of the Gender Earnings Gap Is Explained by Age, Marital Status, Children, Hours Worked

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases an annual report every year on the “Highlights of Women’s Earnings” (since the BLS report actually analyzes equally both men’s and women’s earnings, one ...
Marketplace

How will the BLS prioritize the new economic data it releases?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics usually collects data in real time. So it may not be able to capture October prices or jobs data that was missed during the shutdown. The Bureau of Labor Statistics ...