Economists and job seekers will have to wait longer to know how the job market performed in January.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said it won’t be able to release scheduled data reports on time because it’s one of the agencies affected by the partial government shutdown. BLS told Business Insider it “will suspend data collection, processing, and dissemination” during the shutdown and release the reports once funding resumes.
BLS was scheduled to publish new data on Tuesday that would indicate how job openings, layoffs, quits, and other job-market indicators fared in December. Metropolitan area employment and unemployment numbers were supposed to be released on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the highly anticipated monthly jobs report was set to be released on Friday. It would’ve shown how job growth, unemployment, wages, and more looked in January. It was also expected to show revisions to job growth for the past few years. The most recent report showed the US added 584,000 jobs in 2025, the lowest level since 2003 outside recessions.
“Once funding is restored, BLS will resume normal operations and notify the public of any changes to the news release schedule on the BLS release calendar,” the bureau told Business Insider.
The Senate passed a spending package on Friday that would fund several agencies, but it still needs to go through the House, which wasn’t in session over the weekend.
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