Double Jobs Reports Expected Tuesday

Wall Street Journal: “The Labor Department, after pausing its data collection for weeks during the government shutdown, will publish a report with not one but two months’ worth of data on the health of the U.S. job market.”

“The report will reveal the unemployment rate for November and some data on hiring in October. That information looks backward, but is expected to fill in the blanks on the status of the job market at a tumultuous time for workers.”

“The report won’t, however, include the unemployment rate for October. The Labor Department couldn’t conduct the survey needed to calculate that rate while the government was shut down. It will mark the first time in nearly 80 years that the agency is unable to calculate the jobless rate.”