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UPDATE: Labor Department ‘Working Hard’ to Ensure Jobs Report Released on Time
UPDATE: The U.S. Labor Department on Monday said it is “working hard to ensure the timely release” of the October jobs report, saying it intends to released the report on schedule Friday despite Hurricane Sandy.
“It is our intention that Friday will be business as usual,” said Carl Fillichio, a senior press advisor at Labor. Mr. Fillichio’s statement provided clarity to an earlier Labor statement that said the agency would assess how to handle data releases this week after the “weather emergency” is over.
Friday’s employment report will be the final read on the labor market ahead of the November elections. Initial reports that a delay was possible briefly fueled speculation that the jobs data, good or bad, might not be revealed until after the elections.
Federal government offices in Washington are closed Monday and may be shut again Tuesday due to the storm.
The Labor Department is also scheduled to release its third quarter employment cost index on Wednesday, and the third quarter productivity and weekly jobless claims reports on Thursday.
bocephus rex
October 30th, 2012
“Working hard” to hide more shite verifying the fiscal and economic illiteracy of the Poseur in Chief. You can bet if this report sucks, like they always do, they’ll sit on it as long as possible.
Dr. Tar
October 30th, 2012
The election cake is already baked and Obaffle’s Administration’s goose is cooked. To quote from John Mellencamp “Stick a fork in them, their done.”
The only unanswered questions are just how big the defeat will be for the Moochercrats this election cycle and will they hold together or split into warring camps once the main entree of cold hard reality has been served up.
I’ve been looking forward to dining on their misery for four years now. Can’t wait to see the looks of indigestion at MNBC the Clintons, the Chicago Gang, Pelosi and Reed, etc.
BILL
October 30th, 2012
“labor department working hard”
ha ha ha ha
imagine fed employees breaking a sweat.
they will only revise it downwards anyway the following week.
good one !
66chevelle
October 30th, 2012
Whatever, Labor Dept. Everyone knows your #’s are BS anyway. The real question is, are you going to fudge the # upward for the next three months of Barry’s lame-duck session, so he can claim that Romney is inheriting the Obama Recovery?
bob
October 30th, 2012
The election hasn’t happened yet…
Hotlanta Mike
October 30th, 2012
In other words, hardly working…
BigSlurpy
October 30th, 2012
Let’s hope they include all the states this go around.
LizzieBee
October 30th, 2012
Ah, they are jus’ playin’ games. Shucks. They’re gettin you all worked up and the numbers will show that the employment numbers are going up, up, up. Gotcha, you silly Pubbies.
moarkdave
October 30th, 2012
I am not belittling the bad weather or anything. But how many of us have had to go into work during a bad situation and do our job? Rain, flooding, snow and ice have not kept me home some days. When a job has to get done — you buck up and make it into work and do your job.
The Federal employees seem to get off whenever the weather gets bad. Give them a snow storm and Washington shuts down. Shutting down Washington is usually a good thing thing.
These Labor Department employees that do this report, probably do nothing all week long. They probably only work 8 hours on this one report and the other 32 hours is spent waiting for the hard 8 hours to begin again.
Be like the rest of America, suck it up, make it into work for one lousy day and do your job. Unlike the rest of America, you will still get paid for the entire week, even though you only worked the one day.
Callmelennie
October 30th, 2012
They’re “working hard” to make it look like they’re working hard to get the numbers out
Stranded in Sonoma
October 30th, 2012
The B(L)S can eat shite. They’ve been manipulating numbers for decades, only now it’s to protect 0bama.
It’s really not the unemployment rate that is important. It’s the trend. Is it going up or down? But with the liberal union workers at the BLS covering for 0bama, do you really think that even the trend can be trusted?
If these numbers were generated by 2 or 3 competing private sector companies, I might be more inclined to accept them. Either way it is reported though, it’s still 23%.
Major Mal function
October 30th, 2012
How many states’ unemployment numbers will be left out of this month’s report?
Major Mal function
October 30th, 2012
10/18/2012
Statistical anomaly corrected: Jobless claims explode
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/18/statistical-anomaly-corrected-jobless-claims-explode/
Remember how the Bureau of Labor Statistics put out a bizarrely low jobless claims report last week, producing breathless coast-to-coast media coverage of the lowest claims level in four years? Remember how it turned out they produced this report without having received all of the necessary data?
…
Well, a new week is upon us, all of the data was evidently received on time, and what do you know? Initial jobless claims are up by 46,000, to a seasonally adjusted 388,000. That would technically make it the biggest one-week percentage increase in jobless claims over the last five years. Of course, a great deal of the percentage increase is due to adjustments correcting last week’s inaccurate numbers.
As the Wall Street Journal notes, even with those adjustments factored in, this week’s claims are well above analyst expectations of 365,000 claims. That’s impossible to square with the utterly delusional September jobs report, and its ostensible reduction of the headline unemployment rate to 7.8 percent. A boatload of people got hired in September, but now they’re all filing for unemployment benefits? There is no “Obama recovery.”
Last week, you got headlines of the Obama era’s biggest drop in first-time unemployment claims, with not the slightest indication from major media outlets that the numbers might be suspect. Do you think this ostensibly record-breaking increase will enjoy similarly overheated coverage? Don’t hold your breath. A survey of major media sources this morning shows that most of them cite “seasonal factors” as the excuse for the big jump, right in the headline. (One notable exception: NPR, which served the bad news up straight, with no chaser: “Jobless Claims Take Sharp Jump: Rose By 46,000 Last Week.”)
TN Tuxedo
October 30th, 2012
Yeah, yeah.
A kid trying to fly by wildly flapping his arms is working hard, too.