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Mark Your Calendars: Here's When Social Security Will Announce the 2026 COLA

Money
“This is when the data are most consequential,” said Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, analyzing the importance of recent federal data in the calculation of the 2026 Consumer Price Index.
Mark Your Calendars: Here's When Social Security Will Announce the 2026 COLA

US Shutdown Threatens to Erode Quality of Important Inflation Data

Bloomberg
“They cannot go back to the past, so they will impute more,” says Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, about how staff recalled to the bureau will calculate the 2026 Consumer Price Index in the absence of data from October.
US Shutdown Threatens to Erode Quality of Important Inflation Data

Why Amazon drivers can face mass layoffs without the required 60 days’ notice

Yahoo News
Diane Burton, director of ILR’s Institute for Compensation Studies, comments on the ease of finding new employment for independent contractors doing last-mile delivery for firms that have contracts with Amazon.
Why Amazon drivers can face mass layoffs without the required 60 days’ notice