October Jobs Report to Skip Unemployment Rate, Hassett Says (2)

The October jobs report will be released without a reading of the unemployment rate, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser said Thursday.

“The household survey wasn’t conducted in October, so we’re going to get half the employment report,” National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said on Fox News. “We’ll get the jobs part, but we won’t get the unemployment rate, and that’ll just be for one month.”

The October jobs report, originally scheduled for publication by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Nov. 7, was one of many economic releases to not come out during the government shutdown. No ...