Trump called for the firing of the Labor statistics official after data earlier showed employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, while job gains for the previous two months were largely erased.

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“We have consistently emphasized that a slide in labor demand of this magnitude is a recession warning signal,” JPMorgan ...

Black workers are often last hired, first fired,” said Angela Hanks, chief of policy programs of The Century Foundation. The ...

It’s possible that the disappointing numbers are growing pains, or they may be a preview of more disruption to come.

Since unemployment was higher than expected and is potentially nearing a cycle high, the CME FedWatch tool reported that bets ...

President Trump on Friday directed his team to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a dismal ...

With President Donald Trump's latest executive order on tariffs now set to go into effect Aug. 7, and Friday's report of a ...

Job growth missed the forecast of 106,000 in July, and unemployment rose from 4.1% to 4.2%.

Last year, after the unemployment rate climbed quickly in a short period of time and there were similar calls that the central bank was too late to lower rates, the Fed stepped in with a bold, ...

Just 73,000 jobs were created last month, on a seasonally adjusted basis. + Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had ...

Trump, in a post on his social media platform, alleged that the figures were manipulated for political reasons and said that ...