The annual celebration of the National Statistics Month (NSM) provides a venue to advocate and promote the importance of data ...

The US Labor Department's internal watchdog has launched an investigation into how it gathers jobs and inflation data after intense White House criticism of the agency.

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 ...

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

A new report urges the Department of Education to implement standards that improve data collection for American Indian and Alaska Native students. The Trump administration may derail this work. Native ...

Flying blind amidst heavy fog is a dangerous proposition,” one economist said about the risks of a lapse in official ...

The office of the Labor Department’s inspector general said Wednesday it was initiating a review of challenges the Bureau of Labor Statistics faces in collecting and reporting US economic data ...

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 ...