Anyone waiting for Friday’s snapshot of the US job market will be staring at a blank space instead. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says its January employment report won’t.
Anyone waiting for Friday’s snapshot of the US job market will be staring at a blank space instead. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says its January employment report won’t come out as planned because the agency is partially shut down amid a budget standoff in Congress, the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s the second time in five months the government’s main numbers shop has gone dark, and the release will be pushed to an unspecified later date once funding is restored. House Democrats are blocking a set of spending bills over the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration enforcement, leaving several agencies, including the Labor Department, without money.
