Back in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced it was cutting back on some of its data collection, specifically, the kind that helps us understand what prices are looking like for consumers.

A coalition led by the American Council on Education said the proposal would overly burden colleges and raise student privacy ...

In non-shutdown times, the BLS would be collecting employment data this week. Not doing that could have economic implications ...

The processes used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to collect data for the jobs report have been under scrutiny after last week's disappointing jobs report, and one of the agency's former ...

The Labor Department’s internal watchdog says it is initiating a review of how the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) compiles economic data. In a letter dated Wednesday, Laura Nicolosi, an assistant ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently said it planned to discontinue calculating and publishing wholesale pricing data on hundreds of products in the Producer Price Index. The changes won’t have a ...

Fired by Trump last month, Erika McEntarfer raised the alarm on political meddling in economic data collection.

Federal government staffing shortages from Trump administration hiring freezes have forced the Labor Department’s economic statistics arm to curtail the breadth of its data collection for one of the ...

The agency's Bureau of Labor Statistics would suspend operations if the U.S. government shuts down this week, potentially ...