Source: Reuters
“White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Thursday the government would release the closely watched employment report for October, but without the jobless rate after a weeks-long federal government shutdown. ‘The household survey wasn’t conducted in October, so we’re going to get half the employment report. We’ll get the jobs part, but we won’t get the unemployment rate. And that’ll just be for one month,’ Hassett told Fox News'[s] ‘America’s Newsroom’ program. ‘We probably … will never actually know for sure what the unemployment rate was in October.’ The 43-day government shutdown, the longest on record, caused the suspension of data collection, processing and publishing by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics as well as the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis.” (11/13/25)