In an age of real-time data, it’s inexcusable to be surveying a tiny fraction of total employers every month. Payroll ...

If measurement itself becomes a subject of debate, the informational foundations of economic policymaking inevitably weaken ...

The nation’s highly anticipated monthly job reports have turned into the boy who cried wolf. Ever since the pandemic, these labor market estimates have been wildly inaccurate and required significant ...

In an age of real-time data, it's inexcusable to be surveying a tiny fraction of total employers every month. Payroll processing firms like ADP and Paychex have a treasure trove of labor market data ...

A methodological change contributed to a better-than-expected inflation report, prompting questions from some economists.

The volume of wholesale sales dropped 1.5% in January, while goods exports from Canada sank 4.7%, in part due to auto-industry production disruptions. That casts a doubt on Statistics Canada's earlier ...

Canada's trade deficit in January surprisingly ​widened as exports fell more than imports, led by a meaningful drop in shipments of motor vehicles ‌and parts due to seasonal production stoppages, data ...

The estimate builds on numbers from the FBI, which are widely believed to capture only a small fraction of the money lost to scams.

Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase 50,000 in February while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%.

The BLS updated its birth-death model in January. Economists say the change should improve accuracy and reduce large ...

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An ad hoc panel of nationally renowned experts in social science research, computing technology, statistical methods, privacy, and use of alternative data sources in the United States and abroad will ...