Government Shutdown Delays September Unemployment Rate Announcement for Hawaii

By /
We won’t know how many people were unemployed in Hawaii last month as soon as we normally would have thanks to the federal government shutdown.

The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said Thursday that the suspension of federal government services throughout the first half of October will delay the release of employment data for September.

The information was supposed to be released next Tuesday, but will instead be delayed until the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics issues a revised production schedule.

— Nathan Eagle

image

People walk past the Bureau of Labor Statistics in D.C. (Eden, Janine and Jim via Flickr)

What it means to support Civil Beat.

Supporting Civil Beat means you’re investing in a newsroom that can devote months to investigate corruption. It means we can cover vulnerable, overlooked communities because those stories matter. And, it means we serve you. And only you.

Donate today and help sustain the kind of journalism Hawaiʻi cannot afford to lose.

Donate

About the Author