Just 22,000 Jobs in August, the First Report Since Trump Fired BLS Chief

The first jobs report since Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer as the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed numbers continuing to slow. The post Just 22,000 Jobs in August, the First ... Read More

New jobs report shows worst August job gains since 2010

Union workers in Rhode Island protest a Trump administration stop-work order at an offshore wind farm under construction in August. Friday's jobs report shows the fewest gains in August since 2010. Read More

First Jobs Report Since Trump Fired BLS Chief Is Still Total Disaster

The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday released a dismal jobs report for the month of August ... for instance, that 13,000 jobs were actually lost in June (as opposed to the 14,000 gain in jobs ... Read More

US jobs growth worse than expected in first report since Trump fired agency head, for bad jobs report

The U.S. economy added 22,000 jobs in August — worse than financial experts had expected — according to the first government report since President Donald Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics ... Read More

There are worrying signs buried in the August jobs report

The headline numbers in today’s jobs report were pretty dismal. Job creation slowing to a crawl and the unemployment rate edging higher. Drill down into the report, and it’s not any better. Black ... Read More

Hiring slowdown continues in 1st jobs report since Trump fired commissioner

Fresh jobs data on Friday showed a continued hiring slowdown in the first such release since a dismal jobs report last month prompted President Donald Trump to fire the top official tasked with ... Read More

The US is losing manufacturing jobs. Here's why.

The U.S. manufacturing industry shed more workers in August despite policies from President Donald Trump’s administration aimed at bolstering the sector. The United States lost 12,000 manufacturing ... Read More

Economy adds disappointing 22,000 jobs in August, jobs report shows. Unemployment rises

U.S. hiring slowed further in August as President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade, immigration and federal layoff policies took a widening toll on a rapidly softening labor market. Employers added a ... Read More

The U.S. is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs, analysis finds

Uncertainty over U.S. tariffs and other Trump administration economic policies are deterring manufacturers from hiring, according to the Center for American Progress. Read More

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

With a new, sobering jobs report out Friday, some current employees at the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) are seeking to reassure the American public that the government's ... Read More

Workers Were Promised More Factory Jobs—They’ve Lost 12,000 in August Instead

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ... Read More

US jobs growth worse than expected in first report since Trump fired agency head, for bad jobs report

US jobs growth worse than expected in first report since Trump fired agency head, for bad jobs report - The August jobs report is the first since President Donald Trump fired the non-partisan Bureau o ... Read More