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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The BLS said gasoline prices rose 3.9% last month alone, accounting for more than a third of inflation overall.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Employment has been slow during the summer for three years in a row, based on the BLS report.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Every year, the BLS revises its employment estimates after examining state tax records on businesses that cover 95% of all workers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
One problem the BLS has noted was that companies reported more employees in its surveys than they did in their tax filings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
According to the B.L.S. data, Ohio’s growth is diverse.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 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
Captain Maguire, of B.L.S., did excellent work all through the two halves.
From Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 by Various
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