In normal times, the first Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report.

Late last week, Raul Luna-Perez, an undocumented immigrant with two recent arrests for DUI and one 2023 arrest for domestic ...

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown likely factored into the slowdown in employment gains in the past few months ...

The top job at Bureau of Labor Statistics typically goes to an economist experienced in govt or academia. Now it also requires the ability to walk a tightrope ...

The picture of a booming economy portrayed by the stock markets and strong rhetoric from Trump hides a slowing US economy, ...

Trump had previously touted the May and June jobs reports as proof he was 'revitalizing the American economy.' The revised data bursts those boasts.

Trump fails to understand that at the aggregate ­ (macroeconomic) level, a deficit in the government budget (a purely ...

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

President Donald Trump said Aug. 5 he still has four candidates on tap to replace his nemesis Jerome Powell as chair of the ...

It’s been a wild economic ride lately. Our reporters got together to chew over how things are looking—and what to expect next ...

The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day before then-Vice President Kamala ...

A modest increase in long-term joblessness could reflect employers getting pickier amid uncertainty over tariffs.