BLS

¹ American  

1. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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bls. ² American  

abbreviation

1. bales.

2. barrels.

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B.L.S. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. Bachelor of Library Science.

2. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Example Sentences

Year-on-year prices were up 2.1%, the BLS said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Yet they have to correct for a yearslong decline in employer response rates to BLS surveys—which does not negate the data overall, but certainly makes preliminary calculations a bit more unsteady and speculative.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

The unemployment rate for native-born workers rose to 4.7% in February from 4.4% a year earlier, outpacing the overall unemployment rate of 4.4%, according to the BLS.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

The BLS recently noted that its Current Population Survey can no longer reliably detect a 0.2 percentage point change in the unemployment rate.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 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