How exactly does the BLS assemble the critical jobs report? And what is the commissioner’s role? Here’s what we know.

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Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get ...

President Donald Trump continues to claim without evidence that the jobs report was "totally rigged." ...

Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer oversaw a July jobs report that the president claims was rigged ...

Trump abruptly fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday after the release of the report, ...

President Trump’s pick to run the federal agency that produces the critical U.S. jobs report might not be able to make it ...

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...

Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers ...

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said there must be better ways to collect employment data after President Trump fired the ...