The Latest Breaking News from BLS

Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi declared the U.S. job market is “weak and getting weaker,” delivering his warning after piecing together an analysis from private-sector data.

Moody’s warns U.S. job growth has stalled as the shutdown halts official labor data, forcing Wall Street and the Fed to rely on patchy private reports.

“Our big year won’t be really next year—it’ll be the year after,” Trump told reporters recently.

Data was collected for closely-watched jobs report before shutdown, but Trump officials so far defy calls to publish it

Interpreting economic data is challenging on a good day—harder still when crucial reports go missing.

On Tuesday, the White House withdrew E.J. Antoni's nomination to run the BLS.

As the U.S. government shutdown suspends Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data releases, including the critical September jobs report scheduled for Friday, the Chicago Fed has stepped in with a final real-time forecast, predicting a steady unemployment rate of 4.34% for September 2025, based on 11 job market indicators.

Warren's push comes despite a contingency plan from the Labor Department making clear that BLS would suspend both data collection and publication during a funding lapse.

Planning for resilience has become a strategy for survival.

A surprisingly weak private-sector ADP Employment report, released during an ongoing government shutdown, has intensified fears of a looming economic downturn.

BLS announces that the September CPI, a key inflation measure needed to determine the Social Security COLA, will be released on Sept. 24 despite the ongoing government shutdown.