WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday it would not be publishing the closely watched employment report for October, but will combine nonfarm payrolls for that month with November’s report after the recently ended government shutdown prevented the collection of data for the household survey.

That means October’s unemployment rate will never be known, something that the White House had warned would happen.

“Establishment survey data from the Current Employment Statistics survey for October 2025 will be published with the November 2025 data,” BLS said in a statement. “Household survey data from the Current Population Survey could not be collected for the October 2025 reference period due to a lapse in appropriations. The household survey data is not abl

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