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The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in ...

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

The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).

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

Victoria Guida is an economics correspondent at POLITICO and author of Capital Letter, a reported column that probes policies ...

Trump responded by doing what Trump does: goes ballistic, acts impulsively, attacks the messenger, and spews falsehoods.