Report shows hiring at lowest since 2009 as economists turn to alternative data during shutdown blackout

With shutdown halting reports, alternate data show weak job market | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Alternate data from public and private sources, a substitute for official statistics delayed by a government shutdown, showed the U.S. job market likely remained stalled in September with sluggish hiring but no change in an unemployment rate economists see as influenced by falling numbers of foreign-born workers.

Report shows hiring at lowest since 2009 as economists turn to alternative data during shutdown blackout

The data points fill in some gaps on information that usually comes from the Labor Department but are delayed because of the shutdown.