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Government will release September jobs report next week after end of shutdown

The Labor Department report will come Thursday, a month and a half late, marking the beginning of the end of the data drought caused by the 43-day federal government shutdown .

The statistical blackout meant that the Federal Reserve, businesses, policymakers and investors have largely been in the dark about inflation, job creation, GDP growth and other measures of economic health since late summer.

Thomas Simons and Michael Bacolas at Jefferies, a financial firm, wrote Friday that over 30 reports from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis and Census Bureau were delayed by the political standoff.

The Labor Department d

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