On this particular Friday, at 8:30 a.m. ET, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was supposed to release the September jobs report. Instead, the agency behind the market-moving release — data that has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an economist specializing in labor markets and policy. The Labor Department has released its first jobs report of the year, ...

President Trump ordered his administration to fire the commissioner of labor statistics, Erika McEntarfer, after the July jobs report showed a sharp slowdown in hiring and a steep downward revision to ...