{"id":282084,"date":"2026-02-09T12:34:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/282084\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:34:28","slug":"us-pauses-data-release-and-collection-amid-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/282084\/","title":{"rendered":"US pauses data release \u2014 and collection \u2014 amid shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Labor Statistics will not release January employment data this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/01\/30\/2026\/us-govt-funding-lapse-would-threaten-economic-data\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"no-referrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">due to the ongoing shutdown<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>More concerning: the agency\u2019s pause on collecting February inflation data, which \u201chas greater potential for lasting damage,\u201d David Wilcox, an economist with Bloomberg Economics and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told Semafor. \u201cPrice collection for the CPI should be happening right now and isn\u2019t.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cif that persists more than a few days, the reliability of the February reading will be compromised.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That matters for the Federal Reserve, where policymakers will lean on the data when they meet in March \u2014 and for trust in government data, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/05\/nx-s1-5530733\/bls-jobs-report-labor-statistics-trump\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">which is already diminished<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The inability to \u201crelease that data consistently\u201d feeds a \u201cgrowing cynicism,\u201d the Bipartisan Policy Center\u2019s Emerson Sprick told Semafor. <\/p>\n<p>That makes BLS\u2019 job harder because \u201cpeople don\u2019t trust the data collectors,\u201d Sprick said. \u201cPeople don\u2019t trust that BLS is going to use that data for good or that it\u2019s going to be protected.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bureau of Labor Statistics will not release January employment data this week due to the ongoing shutdown.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-282084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}