Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Federal jobs numbers will not be released if the government shuts down at midnight Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Labor said.
In a release of plans for a government shutdown, the Labor Department said: "[The Bureau of Labor Statistics] will suspend all operations. Economic data that are scheduled to be released during the lapse will not be released. All active data collection activities for BLS surveys will cease. The BLS website will not be updated with new content or restored in the event of a technical failure during a lapse."
The plans were dated Friday and posted on the DOL website.
The BLS September jobs report was scheduled to be released Friday. Economists have been waiting for that data to monitor the economy for an economic downturn.
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