This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.

How exactly does the BLS assemble the critical jobs report? And what is the commissioner’s role? Here’s what we know.

Last week’s slew of economic data confirmed that Trump’s agenda is strangling growth, raising costs and killing jobs.

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically ...

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