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“We happen to have an administration which is less worried about doing things that are disruptive, so this is an opportunity,” said Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, commenting on a possible opportunity to centralize statistics-related government agencies.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, notes potential gaps in the bureau’s data in the aftermath of the government shutdown.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, comments on how the bureau may prioritize reporting now that the federal government shutdown has ended.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor, advised against using just one company’s sales data to evaluate inflation, underscoring the challenges facing policymakers and investors.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, discusses how easy it may be for the bureau to recover data that is missing due to the recent government shutdown.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, reflects on the effect of the government shutdown on the bureau’s data collection and reporting.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, comments on how the bureau may deal with certain missing data now that the government shutdown is over.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, discusses how the bureau may prioritize releasing reports now that the government shutdown is over and how it might collect missing data.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, describes staffing challenges at the bureau as it re-opens after the government shutdown and which reports the bureau is likely to prioritize.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, is mentioned as co-chair of the Friends of the BLS in an article with comments from the Friends of the BLS about issues at the bureau related to the recent government shutdown.

“There’s a benefit to us having this very large U.S. employer now paying its workers again. That’s going to help,” said Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor, commenting on the economic implications of the government shutdown and the impact of reopening federal agencies.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, was quoted in this article about the acquisition of PriceStats, a for-profit gatherer of inflation statistics.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, is quoted about the lack of economic data collection during the government shutdown.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, shares the bureau’s definition of employment and describes how the bureau gathers unemployment data.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, comments on the likelihood of certain government reports ever being published, given the lack of data collected during the current government shutdown.

“If policymakers build systems around data that can vanish overnight, that’s a real vulnerability for economic governance,” said Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, commenting on the Federal Reserve’s need for reliable data when setting the benchmark interest rate.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, says time is running out for the government to publish the October Consumer Price Index report.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, comments on the likelihood of the bureau releasing inflation data for October.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and research fellow at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, discusses a recent Gallup study about job quality.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, describes the difficulties of preparing the bureau’s data during the federal shutdown.

“This is when the data are most consequential,” said Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, analyzing the importance of recent federal data in the calculation of the 2026 Consumer Price Index.

“They cannot go back to the past, so they will impute more,” says Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, about how staff recalled to the bureau will calculate the 2026 Consumer Price Index in the absence of data from October.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, provides expertise on how to use private data in the absence of a current federal jobs report.

In this article about how the 2026 Consumer Price Index will be calculated, information about the data used in that calculation is shared by Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, comments on the effect of missing data due to the federal government shutdown.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, discusses what the bureau can and cannot do when the federal government is shut down, and what that may mean for the publication of the 2026 cost-of-living adjustment announcement and for decision-making by the Federal Reserve.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, comments on how the bureau’s missing report affects analysis about a possible recession: “to have [the data] be of lower quality or just unavailable, will make these decisions all that much more difficult,” she said.

“Without today’s jobs report and next week’s scheduled inflation release … the Federal Reserve, US treasury, financial markets, businesses and households will be flying blind,” said Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, analyzing the absence of today’s jobs report.

“It’s a bad time to be missing data,” said Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, about the absence of today’s jobs report from the bureau, due to the federal government shutdown.

This article includes information from a paper written by Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, about who uses the bureau’s statistics and for what purpose.