BLS
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
BLS
1 American
bls.
2
American
abbreviation
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bales.
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barrels.
B.L.S.
3
American
abbreviation
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Bachelor of Library Science.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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In June, the leisure and hospitality industry lost jobs, but childcare services and office administrative services gained them, according to the BLS.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Since Trump fired McEntarfer, the agency’s interim leader has been William Wiatrowski, a BLS staffer for more than 40 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“My only worry was that he was so good, he was going to leave us,” said Ralph Bradley, a retired BLS staffer who was one of Matsumoto’s first bosses at the agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
In 2012, the BLS estimated roughly 8,000 projectionists and predicted the number would decline by 26.5% in the next 10 years — but it ultimately decreased by 76%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Of the “private household cleaners and servants” it managed to locate in 1998, the BLS reports that 36.8 percent were Hispanic, 15.8 percent black, and 2.7 percent “other.”
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
You said the numbers were wrong,’ ” Kathleen Utgoff, who ran the B.L.S. under President George W. Bush, told me.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
TMZ has paid at least one mole inside B.L.S., a limousine service, to provide lists of celebrity customers, their planned routes, and the license-plate numbers of their vehicles.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 22, 2016
The B.L.S. has also found that the number of new establishments has fallen sharply since 2006.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2012
Last week there was some good news when the B.L.S. released its annual census of workplace fatalities — it reported a 17 percent drop in fatal workplace injuries in 2009 compared with the previous year.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2010
B.L.S. has a strong team this year, beyond question.
From Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 by Various
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