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Federal Reserve officials may have to determine next steps for interest rates without access to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' September employment data.

For people who closely follow the U.S. economy, the first Friday of every month is known as “jobs Friday,” when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the previous month’s employment report at precisely 8:30 a.m. ET.

But on this jobs Friday, September's employment data — a critical window into the health of the U.S. labor market — will not be released.

Like many other federal offices, the BLS is temporarily closed because of the ongoing government shutdown.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Then why won't Republicans accept the Democrat budget proposal?

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The amount of hatred I have for Schumer and Jeffries for not directly blaming Republicans and directly saying what their budget proposal does cannot be put into words. Instead they're talking about what? That fucking AI video and how rude they're being?

[–] dondelelcaro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Jeffries has directly said what it does and who is yo blame.

They aren't being effective enough at getting that message out, but they are saying it pretty clearly.

Donald Trump and Republicans have now shut down the federal government because they do not want to protect the healthcare of the American people. Democrats remain ready to find a bipartisan path forward to reopen the government in a way that lowers costs and addresses the Republican healthcare crisis.

That's not direct. "They don't want to protect the healthcare of the American people" is not "We rejected their proposal because it directly increases healthcare costs for anyone making under 90k/year" or whatever the number that was put out recently was. It's also not "Why should we agree to anything they put forward if the Republican president is allowed to just cancel our appropriations like he has been?"

I want them to be specific because even that statement plays into the whole right wing framing of it being a policy dispute and the Democrats wanting to give healthcare to illegal aliens. Democrats always do this. Even when they "resist" they do nothing to challenge the right wing framing

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