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The U.S. government is entering its third day of shutdown on Friday, October 3, which was when the September jobs report was scheduled to be released. Yet with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and other government statistical agencies in a deep freeze, we have no data. How then are economists and policymakers, as well as HR and recruiting leaders, expected to “fly blind” without trusted jobs data?
Here at Recruitonomics, we’ve written a guide to the non-BLS data we trust from private sector labor market sources, as well as the indicators from financial and prediction markets.
Private-sector labor market