President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a report showed weak job growth and a small increase in the unemployment rate. "I have directed my Team to fire this Biden ...

Nonfarm labor productivity increased 1.8% Q/Q in Q4, revised down from the 2.8% growth estimated earlier, and slowing from ...

The Department of Labor reported Thursday that first-time claims for unemployment bumped up slightly last week: 226,000 filed new claims, up from 219,000 the week before. And during that week before — ...

President Donald Trump defended some of his more controversial recent decisions, such as firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while distancing himself from past choices he’s grown ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists. - Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump claimed without ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised labor productivity in Q4 of 2025 downward from 2.8% to 1.8%. “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal breaks down the numbers and what they could mean for the future of ...

On Friday, President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), only hours after the release of new monthly jobs data that showed a continued ...

Many government agencies are little known to most Americans, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been one of them until recently. That all changed when President Trump fired the director for ...

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Our live coverage of tariffs and the July jobs report has ended. Scroll through the posts below to read about today’s developments. The National Association for Business Economics slammed President ...

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam,” accusing one of the top overseers of government statistics of cooking the ...