The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has announced it will not release inflation information for the month of October, citing the consequences of the recent government shutdown.On Friday, the bureau updated its website to say that certain October data would not be available, even now that government funding has been restored and normal operations have resumed.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“BLS could not collect October 2025 reference period survey data due to a lapse in appropriations,” it wrote in a statement. “BLS is unable to retroactively collect these data.”The cancelled data includes the Consumer Price Index (CPI) — a report that is commonly used to calculate inflation by measuring the changing costs of retail items — and the Real Earnings summary, which tracks wages among US workers.For some of the reports, including the Consumer Price Index, the bureau said it would use “nonsurvey data sources” to make calculations that would be included in a future report for the month of November.The November Consumer Price Index will also be published later than anticipated, on December 18.The most recent government shutdown was the longest in US history, spanning nearly 43 days.It began on October 1, after the US Congress missed a September 30 deadline to pass legislation to keep the government funded.Republicans had hoped to push through a continuing resolution that made no changes to current s …
