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BumRushDaShow

(161,040 posts) Fri Oct 3, 2025, 08:56 AM 5 hrs ago

Government shutdown delays key monthly jobs report at a pivotal moment for the U.S. economy

Source: NBC News

Oct. 3, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT

For people who closely follow the U.S. economy, the first Friday of every month is known as “jobs Friday,” when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the previous month’s employment report at precisely 8:30 a.m. ET. But on this jobs Friday, September's employment data — a critical window into the health of the U.S. labor market — will not be released.

Like many other federal offices, the BLS is temporarily closed because of the ongoing government shutdown. Until Congress approves its funding, the bureau’s more than 2,000 employees will remain furloughed, unable to release any reports.

The data blackout comes at a perilous time for the U.S. economy. The unemployment rate has steadily ticked up this year, from a seasonally adjusted 4% in January to 4.3% in August. On Wednesday, new private-sector employment data released by payroll processing giant ADP showed a net loss of 32,000 jobs in September. Economists had expected a gain of around 45,000 jobs.

The surprise loss of private-sector jobs only served to compound the value a Friday jobs report could have provided to policymakers and businesses as they try to make sense of the rapid shifts underway in the labor market.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/government-shutdown-jobs-report-trump-rcna235298

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Government shutdown delays key monthly jobs report at a pivotal moment for the U.S. economy (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 5 hrs ago OP

Not a bug mikeysnot 5 hrs ago #1

Wonder if this is a big part of the reason krasnov was jonesing for a shutdown so bad! lark 4 hrs ago #2

🙄Sure. He shut down the government so as not to release data that he could just as easily simply refuse to Wiz Imp 2 hrs ago #11

But this is a two-fer. It bumps the epstein files out of the spotlight for a while. PSPS 1 hr ago #14

We the People are living it.................... Lovie777 4 hrs ago #3

GOP doesn't want us to know IronLionZion 4 hrs ago #4

They have! (thru August). And they are epic, MAGA! progree 4 hrs ago #5

Also, unemployment rate, and answer to tRump's question to Black people, "what have you got to lose?" progree 3 hrs ago #7

Delaying the release of the Jobs Report during a shutdown is standard operating procedure Wiz Imp 2 hrs ago #10

What isn't "SOP" is firing Erika McEntarfer because their figures "made you look bad." PSPS 1 hr ago #13

The figures will be cooked anyway. PSPS 3 hrs ago #6

Congratulations on agreeing with Marco Rubio and Donald Trump! Wiz Imp 2 hrs ago #9

One way to keep the bad numbers at bay... Historic NY 3 hrs ago #8

I thought they had already decided not to releast this week and to reduce reporting generally? nt wiggs 1 hr ago #12

Reports larwdem 1 hr ago #15

mikeysnot

(4,878 posts)

1. Not a bug

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 08:59 AM

5 hrs ago

A feature..

lark

(25,513 posts)

2. Wonder if this is a big part of the reason krasnov was jonesing for a shutdown so bad!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 09:16 AM

4 hrs ago

Hiding treachery is a big part of what he does on a daily basis, because he's determined to destroy us for his own profit.

Wiz Imp

(7,587 posts)

11. 🙄Sure. He shut down the government so as not to release data that he could just as easily simply refuse to

Reply to lark (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:43 AM

2 hrs ago

release without a shutdown.

PSPS

(14,987 posts)

14. But this is a two-fer. It bumps the epstein files out of the spotlight for a while.

Reply to Wiz Imp (Reply #11)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:24 PM

1 hr ago

Lovie777

(20,533 posts)

3. We the People are living it....................

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 09:22 AM

4 hrs ago

that is fact, plus we are being terrorized by the government who is suppose to keep us safe.

IronLionZion

(50,022 posts)

4. GOP doesn't want us to know

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 09:30 AM

4 hrs ago

if MAGA is so great for creating jobs, you would think they'd proudly share the numbers.

progree

(12,384 posts)

5. They have! (thru August). And they are epic, MAGA!

Reply to IronLionZion (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 09:57 AM

4 hrs ago

Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

Last 3 months thru August: 29 k/month average
Last 4 months: 27k/month average
Last 12 months: 122k/mo average

And the graph and the above numbers don't include the 911k downward revision in the period April 2024 thru March 2025

progree

(12,384 posts)

7. Also, unemployment rate, and answer to tRump's question to Black people, "what have you got to lose?"

Reply to IronLionZion (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:13 AM

3 hrs ago

Source: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/
More on how to produce this graph:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3539504

I drew the vertical yellow line free-hand -- that's about where January 2025 is, the beginning of tRump's reign

There is also a "Show Table" link below each graph:

Total unemployment rate from January 2025 to August 2025: 4.0% --> 4.3%
White unemployment rate from January 2025 to August 2025: 3.5% --> 3.7%
Black unemployment rate from January 2025 to August 2025: 6.2% --> 7.5%
. . . from 1.8X the white unemployment rate to 2.0X

The white unemployment rate isn't shown on the graph, but it's in the table

Wiz Imp

(7,587 posts)

10. Delaying the release of the Jobs Report during a shutdown is standard operating procedure

Reply to IronLionZion (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:40 AM

2 hrs ago

In 2013, The same thing happened. Shutdown on October 1, then no Jobs report released that Friday. It will be released after the shutdown ends.

On The BLS website, you can still access the delayed schedule from 2013.
https://www.bls.gov/bls/updated_release_schedule.htm

Data wouldn't be completely ready for release until after the shutdown started.

PSPS

(14,987 posts)

13. What isn't "SOP" is firing Erika McEntarfer because their figures "made you look bad."

Reply to Wiz Imp (Reply #10)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:21 PM

1 hr ago

This puts a cloud over everything emanating from BLS, regardless of whether it's delayed or not.

PSPS

(14,987 posts)

6. The figures will be cooked anyway.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:11 AM

3 hrs ago

Wiz Imp

(7,587 posts)

9. Congratulations on agreeing with Marco Rubio and Donald Trump!

Reply to PSPS (Reply #6)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:32 AM

2 hrs ago

https://www.alternet.org/biden-maga-republicans-fake/

“Another fake jobs report out from Biden-Harris government today,” the Florida Republican wrote on social media. “16 of the last 17 reports have been significantly revised downwards after media helps them with their fake headlines.”

“But all the fake numbers in the world aren’t going to fool people dealing with the Biden-Harris economic disaster every day,” he declared.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jobs-soar-biden-trump-claims-job-numbers-are-fake-rcna150443

During Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, the Republican faced a dilemma. On the one hand, the economy was relatively healthy at the time, and the unemployment rate was steadily improving in the run-up to Election Day. On the other hand, Trump wanted voters to believe the United States was in the midst of an economic disaster that only he could fix.

The GOP nominee settled on a specific rhetorical strategy to resolve the tension: Trump would simply peddle nonsense and tell the public to believe him, instead of reality. As we discussed at the time, at different points during the campaign, the Republican publicly argued, for example, that the unemployment rate was 20% — or possibly 42% — even as reality pointed to a rate below 5%.

After the election, at a pre-inaugural press conference, Trump declared there are “96 million really wanting a job and they can’t get,” which was ridiculous, even for him. Around the same time, the then-president-elect declared that the unemployment rate was “totally fiction.”

Eight years later, as job growth under another Democratic president soars, the Republican is turning to a familiar message. “The Biden job numbers are fake,” the presumptive GOP nominee told a Wisconsin audience yesterday.

You disagree with the numbers so they must be fake - that is the entirety of your position. I'm sure you thought Rubio and Trump were being idiots or just typical partisan lying Republicans. But somehow, you making the exact same claims is true because you know you are right, despite being presented with mountains of proof you are wrong. I would think most people would quit making their proven false claims. But you apparently prefer to emulate Trump by not just making false claims, but refusing to stop when you are proven wrong.

W T M I L. Bye!

Historic NY

(39,319 posts)

8. One way to keep the bad numbers at bay...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:57 AM

3 hrs ago

when firing people didn't

wiggs

(8,468 posts)

12. I thought they had already decided not to releast this week and to reduce reporting generally? nt

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:11 PM

1 hr ago