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(163,879 posts) Wed Nov 19, 2025, 01:54 PM Nov 19

Labor Department Cancels Release of Much-Anticipated October Jobs Report [View all]

Source: MEDIAite

Nov 19th, 2025, 1:05 pm

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Wednesday that it will not publish a jobs report for the month of October.

On Wednesday afternoon, a revision was made on BLS’s website confirming that the employment situation data for October 2025 would not be released. The previously scheduled release date was November 7. In its statement, the BLS appeared to blame the government shutdown for the bureau’s inability to collect household data:

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As noted by global market tracker The Kobeissi Letter, this marks the first cancellation of a monthly jobs report since 2013.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/labor-department-cancels-release-of-much-anticipated-october-jobs-report/

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Labor Department Cancels Release of Much-Anticipated October Jobs Report [View all] BumRushDaShow Nov 19 OP

Data must have looked bad BlueWaveNeverEnd Nov 19 #1

Seeing as how the previous BLS director was fired for publishing unflatterring data....... groundloop Nov 19 #7

Yup. Self-infliicted. BlueWavePsych Nov 19 #12

I would bet the numbers are so negative that the administration does not want to publish them. OLDMDDEM Nov 19 #2

Must be real bad.................. Lovie777 Nov 19 #3

Just too good to be true, right? marble falls Nov 19 #4

The whole administration is a f*cking bunch of lying basta*ds. NotHardly Nov 19 #5

Gee, I get off the computer and leave the room for a few minutes, and ... mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 #6

Well the September report is still due to issue tomorrow BumRushDaShow Nov 19 #8

We've got that at least. On my first reading of your post, I thought THAT was the one that has been called off. NT mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 #9

I know they had time to gather data for the September one BumRushDaShow Nov 19 #10

Actually, for Establishment Data, the October data will be published with the November data progree Nov 19 #11

That bad, damn ? republianmushroom Nov 19 #13

Bond Market Wagers on Fed Rate Cut Crumble on Jobs Data Void -- the Fed will be without a lot of data it was progree Nov 19 #14

Well Nvidia just announced they blew past market expectations BumRushDaShow Nov 19 #15

First it was GPUs and electricity, now AI is eating up the memory industry ((causing memory prices to rise, progree Nov 19 #16

I used to build my own PCs about 25 years ago as a "side hobby" BumRushDaShow Thursday #18

I am truly impressed. I'm frightened to death to take the case off my desktop tower computer progree Thursday #19

Regarding that SIM issue BumRushDaShow Thursday #21

Nice work there. A Badger Thursday #17

Thanks :) progree Thursday #20