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.

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell modestly last week, remaining in the historically low range since the U.S. economy emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Services prices soared 1.1%, the largest gain since March 2022, amid strong increases in machinery and equipment wholesaling, ...

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

Still, some warnings from financial writers have been ominous: Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, said the firing was ...

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

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics has already proposed data collection changes that would ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is one of those rare corners of government that is indispensable and should be dull.

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

Macro investors are trying to make sense of President Donald Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics plan.

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