From CNN:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is calling some staff back to work to prepare its closely watched inflation gauge, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, despite the government shutdown, a Trump administration official told CNN.
The latest CPI data was previously scheduled for release on October 15. It’s unclear whether the report will still be released next week or delayed amid the shutdown. The Trump official told CNN that the data would be published before November 1, since that is the deadline to publish the annual increase for Social Security payments. The September CPI data is needed to calculate that adjustment. …
5 comments:
Prime evidence that government shutdowns are a political fiction, like the debt ceiling. No one should be on furlough if any particular group can be made to work without appropriations.
Notice that this administration wants no part of the unemployment numbers. Manipulating the data once again.
Queue the people bemoaning the “fixed income” for SS recipients. I guarantee the COLA will be larger than the 1.0% adjustment given to people actually working. Also, fed insurance plan rates are going up an average of 11.1% in 2026. So those working are seeing a reduction in take home pay in 2026.
Master manipulators. They pick and choose what they want released.I guess the unemployment numbers don’t matter.
They are finally going to release the unemployment numbers… check that.
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