Lynette Duncan didn’t expect to spend 20 hours over the past two weeks digging through a mothballed computer system, trying to retrieve admissions data from 2019. Duncan is the director of ...

“Flying blind amidst heavy fog is a dangerous proposition,” one economist said about the risks of a lapse in official statistics. By Ben Casselman The monthly jobs report on Friday is expected to ...

Key economic reports for October may not be released at all because of the government shutdown, a senior White House official said Wednesday. Release of important economic data has been at the ...

The government shutdown delayed the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, “arguably the most important piece of information” for the Federal Reserve to review before its meeting at the end of the ...

In a year so far characterized by massive federal funding and staff cuts, education data groups breathed a sigh of relief this summer when the Department of Education announced it was moving forward ...

Jobs and inflation data will be released late and with caveats, complicating the Federal Reserve’s interest rate deliberations. By Ben Casselman and Rebecca Davis O’Brien The government shutdown is ...

A barrage of post-shutdown data this week has left economists with more questions than answers about the state of the U.S. economy. Unemployment rose to a 4-year high in November, inflation improved ...

The impact of a government shutdown on commercial real estate, while not quite as immediate, is far-reaching. A federal shutdown affects data collection, causes uncertainty for CRE dealmaking and hits ...