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Could the Government Shutdown Delay the Social Security COLA?

Money
Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, discusses what the bureau can and cannot do when the federal government is shut down, and what that may mean for the publication of the 2026 cost-of-living adjustment announcement and for decision-making by the Federal Reserve.
Could the Government Shutdown Delay the Social Security COLA?

US delays key jobs report due to government shutdown

France 24
Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, comments on how the bureau’s missing report affects analysis about a possible recession: “to have [the data] be of lower quality or just unavailable, will make these decisions all that much more difficult,” she said.
US delays key jobs report due to government shutdown

US ‘flying blind’ at critical moment for economy, experts warn, with no jobs data amid shutdown

The Guardian
“Without today’s jobs report and next week’s scheduled inflation release … the Federal Reserve, US treasury, financial markets, businesses and households will be flying blind,” said Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, analyzing the absence of today’s jobs report.
US ‘flying blind’ at critical moment for economy, experts warn, with no jobs data amid shutdown