US EditionFriday’s jobs report will be delayed because of the partial government shutdown
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is delaying the January and December labor reports due to a partial government shutdown; 2025 job growth was the lowest since 2003, officials said.
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed on Monday it will not publish the January Jobs Report on Friday, February 6, 2026, due to the government shutdown.
- Because of the funding lapse, the delay stems from a partial federal government shutdown as Congress debates DHS funding and immigration, with the Senate approving a two-week DHS funding measure and House Speaker Mike Johnson hopeful the shutdown ends by tomorrow.
- Also affected, BLS is postponing the December job openings report due Tuesday; markets expected a 55,000 rise in nonfarm payrolls and a 4.4% household unemployment rate, while economists forecast 80,000 hires last month.
- The delay removes a routine data point for markets and policymakers, depriving them of timely labor data during a puzzling economic period, while the Bureau of Labor Statistics will resume operations once government funding is restored, Emily Liddel said.
- Recent economic readings show gross domestic product grew fastest in two years, yet employers have added just 28,000 jobs per month since March, contrasting with 400,000 monthly hires during the 2021–2023 hiring boom.
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The January 2026 employment report was scheduled to be published on Friday, 6 February.
US jobs report for Jan. to be delayed because of partial government shutdown
WASHINGTON —The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Feb. 2 that its closely watched employment report for January will not be released as scheduled on Friday because of a partial shutdown of the federal government.
US labor statistics office pauses data release amid shutdown
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will not release January employment data this week due to the ongoing shutdown. More concerning: the agency’s pause on collecting February inflation data, which “has greater potential for lasting damage,” David Wilcox, an economist with Bloomberg Economics and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told Semafor. “Price collection for the CPI should be happening right now and isn’t.” He added that “if t…
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