Normally, I would be reporting and discussing the Labor Department unemployment numbers on this day (because they are released on the first Friday of the month for the previous month). But thanks to the Republicans playing political games and shutting down the federal government, there are no unemployment figures to look at. That's because the people who put those numbers together and issue the monthly report have been furloughed (due to the shutdown). Instead, we get the following announcement of the Labor Department website:
"Due to the lapse in funding, the Employment Situation release which provides data on employment during the month of September, compiled by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, will not be issued as scheduled on Friday, October 4, 2013. An alternative release date has not been scheduled. The Employment Situation release includes the unemployment rate (from the household survey) and payroll employment (from the business establishment survey)."
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