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Labor Department watchdog to audit jobs and inflation reports from embattled BLS

A government watchdog says it will review how a Labor Department agency compiles and reports some of the nation’s highest ...

Trump administration ramps up pressure on Labor Department with data probe

President Donald Trump and others in his administration have taken aim at the Labor Department's jobs and inflation reports, ...

US weekly jobless claims increase as labor market softens

The number of Americans filing new applications for jobless benefits increased sharply last week, consistent with a material ...

You can trust the jobs report, Labor Department workers urge public

A strongly-worded statement from Bureau of Labor Statistics workers comes a month after President Trump attacked the ...

Inflation heats up as Fed faces pressure from Trump, labor market to cut rates

Inflation accelerated in August, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department, complicating the Federal Reserve’s efforts to balance interest rates amid intense political and ...

Education Dept Shifts Workforce Duties As Trump Moves To Dismantle Agency

The Department of Education (ED) on Monday launched a new portal for streamlining federal workforce development programs and ...

US-born workers see job gains as foreign-born employment declines, Labor Department data shows

The Labor Department's August jobs report revealed immigrant worker employment declined by 822,000 since last year while U.S.

Giant Donald Trump Portrait Draped Over Department of Labor Building in DC

A massive portrait of Donald Trump was draped over the Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C., on Monday. It ...