Bureau of Labor Statistics
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics is a unit of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics
The Postal Square Building in Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Bureau of Labor Statistics until 2024
Front page of the Monthly Labor Review, October 1969
Carroll D. Wright 2
Charles Patrick Neill 1912
Erika McEntarfer
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Erika Lee McEntarfer is an American labor economist who served as the commissioner of labor statistics from 2024 to 2025.
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…as Acting Commissioner until the next commissioner, William Beach was sworn in. Beach served until January 2024, at which time he was succeeded by Erika McEntarfer. On August 1, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that he would fire Commissioner McEntarfer, hours after a downward revision in job creation was…
Official portrait, 2024