US Labor Market Holds Steady Despite Shutdown’s Data Blackout
US Labor Market Holds Steady Despite Shutdown’s Data Blackout The US labor market appears to be maintaining a fragile stability, even as the government shutdown has prevented the release of the official September jobs report. With the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) gone dark, economists and analysts are turning to alternative data sources to gauge the health of the economy. Unofficial figures suggest that the labor market continued its slow pace in September. The Dow Jones consensus had anticipated a…