"Economists and job seekers will have to wait longer to know how the job market performed in January. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said it won't be able to release scheduled data reports on time because it's one of the agencies affected by the partial government shutdown. BLS told Business Insider it "will suspend data collection, processing, and dissemination" during the shutdown and release the reports once funding resumes."
"BLS was scheduled to publish new data on Tuesday that would indicate how job openings, layoffs, quits, and other job-market indicators fared in December. Metropolitan area employment and unemployment numbers were supposed to be released on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the highly anticipated monthly jobs report was set to be released on Friday. It would've shown how job growth, unemployment, wages, and more looked in January. It was also expected to show revisions to job growth for the past few years."
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will suspend data collection, processing, and dissemination during the partial government shutdown and will reschedule reports once funding resumes. Scheduled releases affected include data on job openings, layoffs, quits, and other job-market indicators for December; metropolitan area employment and unemployment numbers; and the monthly jobs report for January, which would show job growth, unemployment, wages, and revisions to past job-growth estimates. The most recent jobs report showed the U.S. added 584,000 jobs in 2025, the lowest level since 2003 outside recessions. A Senate spending package could restore funding but still requires House approval.
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