{"id":13728,"date":"2025-11-14T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=13728"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:00:38","slug":"hassett-we-will-never-know-what-the-unemployment-rate-was-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=13728","title":{"rendered":"Hassett: \u2018We will never know what the unemployment rate was in October\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"618\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/67.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/67.png 618w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/67-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A top White House economic adviser said Thursday that the government will be unable to determine what the unemployment rate was in October due to the shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told reporters that the government was not able to complete the household surveys used to determine unemployment data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe October employment report for the payroll side will be able to be calculated, but the household survey wasn\u2019t completed,\u201d Hassett told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019ll get sort of half a jobs report,\u201d he continued. \u201cMost everything else, I think, we\u2019ll be able to concoct the correct number after we look back, but we will never know what the unemployment rate was in October, because there wasn\u2019t a household survey with that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump signed legislation late Wednesday to reopen the government after a record-setting shutdown that lasted 43 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most recent jobs report that was released before the lapse in funding began was the August jobs report, which came out Sept. 5. 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