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The Department of Labor will redeploy staff to work on a major report on consumer inflation despite the ongoing federal government shutdown, DailyExpertNews has learned.
The department's Bureau of Labor Statistics will “immediately resume” work on September's Consumer Price Index data, a White House official said. The report will be released on October 24 at 8:30 a.m. ET, nine days after it was originally scheduled, according to the BLS.
The department had originally halted work on the CPI report — which tracks a wide range of goods and services based on price changes over time — because of the shutdown plan, the official said. But the Social Security Agency needs third-quarter CPI data to calculate and publish annual cost-of-living adjustments by November 1.
Other BLS data publications, including the Nonfarm Wage Report, have not been published as originally intended since the federal government shutdown due to a lack of funding. The Senate on Thursday failed for the seventh time to pass funding bills that would have ended the shutdown, which began last week.
Bloomberg News first reported that the BLS was calling workers back to work based on CPI data.
— DailyExpertNews's Steve Liesman contributed to this report.
