Economists have been anxiously awaiting today’s numbers, which were delayed by the weeks-long government shutdown.

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, ...

Bureau of Labor Statistics grapples with technical glitches, casting doubts on the integrity of vital economic data. Revelations of premature data access by financial firms stir concerns over equal ...

The new August jobs report shows employment numbers of U.S.-born workers and foreign-born workers going on two very different trajectories. Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an arm of ...

The Labor Department released the highly anticipated November jobs report which showed the U.S. economy added jobs despite ...