Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 9 fell by 3,000 to 224,000, the Labor Department reported. That’s below the 230,000 new applications that economists had forecast.

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E.J. Antoni’s nomination to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics was already dreadful. New reporting on his Jan. 6 connection ...

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Opposing his nomination to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics is the one thing the left and right can agree on.

Political pressure on government statisticians and private forecasters risks sending markets down a rabbit-hole, which could ...

Government data is now in question. Here's where macro investors are turning to fill the gaps. The firing of the BLS head by President Donald Trump has spooked some macro investors. Trump's nomination ...

Political pressure on government statisticians and private forecasters risks sending markets down a rabbit-hole, which could ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, typically issued on the first Friday of every month, is one of the most closely watched releases by policymakers and Wall Street. Attention has been ...

Trump has selected E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the next commissioner at the ...

The president is eliminating top government statisticians and data collection efforts he doesn’t like, raising alarms about ...

The BLS has failed to modernize, and its methods are deficient. The jobs number and its revisions do not meet accepted ...