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Report: Labor Dept. Considers Delaying Release of Final Jobs Report Until After Election

Oct. 29, 2012 12:14pm Becket Adams

The U.S. Labor Department on Monday announced that it is considering delaying the release of Friday’s October employment report, citing Hurricane Sandy as its chief reason, the Wall Street Journal reports.

“We will assess the situation when the weather emergency is over and notify the press and public of any changes at that time,” said Gary Steinberg, spokesman for the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Keep in mind, this is the final jobs report before the election.

“Labor is scheduled to release the employment report on Friday, third quarter employment costs on Wednesday and weekly jobless claims on Thursday,” the Journal report notes.

As of this writing, it’s also being reported that the U.S. Census Bureau is considering delaying this week’s construction spending and factory orders reports.

Final Thought — If the Labor Department decides to delay the final pre-election jobs report, consider the following:

If BLS magically decides to not release the jobs data on Friday, keep in mind that it completed its data collection over a week ago.

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 29, 2012

However, to be fair, and as the Wall Street Journal notes, the delay (if there is one) could be more the result of Washington power outages and transportation disruptions than a lack of data.

UPDATE –A spokesman for the Labor Department tells Buzzfeed in a statement that they are doing everything they can to have the numbers out by Friday:

The employees at the Bureau of Labor Statistics are working hard to ensure the timely release of employment data on Friday, November 2.

It is our intention that Friday will be business as usual regarding the October Employment Situation Report.

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term limits for congress
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:36pm
I hope the Election Commission will share the election results with us. That, too, was completed over a week ago.

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- Konservative PUNK
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:07pm
  We are told not to question this department because it is non-partisan.
  What relevancy does a storm in New England have on numbers in D.C.???
  
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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:28pm
  A week ago in 2011. But its not rigged OH NO
  
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- HKS
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:39pm
  If their holding a report, you know it’s worse than bad. Assume it’s as bad as it can get, hiding the report is a dead give away.
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:40pm
  Oh no, this again? We get a lecture from the Labor Sec. and then we find out that the Obozo surrogate that is in charge of submitting the numbers for California just forgot to turn the numbers in for the first time ever. Oh and then Frankenstorm is causing the MSM to push the cancel the elections option. Obozo fly’s down to Florida last night and then get’s and takes off early before attending the Campaign event. Bozo just borrowed a million of our tax dollars for that gaffe and charged it off to you, the tax payer. All for political reasons… Keep in mind HAARP can create storms…..Maybe Clooney’s percfect storm is being used for political reasons too. I know I know crazy, but the Govt’ is capable of anything to keep Obama…
  
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- airportengineer
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:41pm
  Konservative,
  I thought the EXACT same thing! So what does that have to do with a storm?? They are providing totals on Unemployed people, NOT total of people not able to go to their job due to weather! How stupid do they think we are???
  
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- HKS
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:07pm
  They think your a democrat, they will blindly believe anything.
  
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- michael48
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:12pm
  provides additional proof..the BLS is just a tool for the comrade crowd…there are NO gov. gumbas that can be trusted any longer..this data is used or WAS used in many finacial and future hire/fire decisions…if Oblamer is placed back upon the throne…fire will be the initial prejudice…
  
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- zorro
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:27pm
  They’re doing everything in their power to fudge the numbers by Friday like they did last month with their laughable claim the unemployment rate actually dropped.
  
  I predit the numbers WILL come out on Friday and they will show the unemployment rate at about 7.5% – “lowest since Obama took office.”
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:31pm
  Just read on Moveon.org that the president has announced that do to folks up North being dininfrancised because of the storm and them losing their early voting privalidge the election will be on November 20TH.
  
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- jaylew
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:36pm
  LOLOLOL although not a funny subject…..your post really is hilarious…..I hope I never return to my prior cynical stage in life where at one time I thought everything was rigged…..but it is becoming difficult to stave off that sense these days…..
  
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- vvinyard
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:45pm
  I don’t ever recall not all of the states numbers being reported in, this late in the game. How is Ohio and others still not showing? Does anyone know where all the people from the east coast were evacuated to? I do find these storms very curious, a life time event??? Three not two storms colliding, how convienent.
  
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- Obama Been Lauding
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:24am
  Someone said, Harry Reid said, Anonymous sources said, the Labor Dept. is going to revise employment numbers, to factor in Lemonade stands, and Leaf Rakers, not to mention, moron democrats putting diapers on cigarette butts!!!!
  
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- krissy519
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:59am
  So, the Labor Department told us last month, when there was the 3% drop in unemployment, that they were most certainly not in bed with the Obama Administration, and that we should be ashamed for even thinking so. They are completely contradicting themselves now by delaying the Octobers jobs report until after the election.
  
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Swimming-with-the-Sharks
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:35pm
It it is a straw-man argument. We all know that this department is willing to do whatever it can to help Obama, and that they are willing to lie about, manipulate, and to obfuscate real numbers.

So why delay. They are perfectly capabale of creating a B.S. report that will make Obama look better, and nobody will be the wiser until Obama is crowned king again (he hopes).

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- Watermain
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:47pm
  I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that they were ordered (by someone above their pay grade) to hold up the report unless, by some miracle, everybody finds a job this week…
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:37pm
  @WaterMain:
  
  Agreed.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:42pm
  They don’t have to “find a job”, waterman. They can just magically drop off the work force for a whole slew of reasons. It’s what’s been bring the unemployment rate down.
  
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Shasta
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:34pm
All the comments about this story seem to be merely saying “It’s just business as usual”. How friggin sad that the ‘most honest and transparent administration’ in history has brought us to the point where this is considered normal. OBlamo has turned this entire country into Chicago.

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- Vickie Dhaene
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:37pm
  No he has not and No he will not.
  
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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:23pm
  @Dhaene yes he has and yes he DID and if you dont see that then please stand down on the 6th….
  
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RockyRoccocco
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:33pm
What about last months figures, and the rumor that Califonia submitted their numbers too late to be included? Was there ever any truth to that, and if so, what were the revised figures? If true, and if they pull similar stuff this month based on politics, it will be hard to believe anything that comes out of the monthly reports from the BLS.

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- omni3460
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:40pm
  Ca did not report 33,000 … which raised to 392,000 (but who heard about it?).
  
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term limits for congress
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:33pm
Why doesn’t the BLS just stop reporting? All info from the regime is lies or mis-information. It is the new normal.

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texaswoman
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:32pm
Do you need any more evidence that someone is trying to manipulate the election? Out with the crooks!!!

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momrules
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:31pm
Well we did know the storm would be used in some way by team Obama. This a weak excuse but not surprising in the least.

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bannedfromCNN
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:30pm
Real under/unemployment is at around 16% THAT’S the number that should be reported!

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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:39pm
  No worries. IF romney wins, it will be going forward.
  
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- QuincySmith
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:48pm
  roth;
  
  As opposed to oblama’s re-election when it would top 25%
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:55pm
  Not my point Quincy. My point is that the media will suddenly about face and start doing investigative reporting with a thick layer of cynicism vs. the sycophantic drivel we’ve seen under BHO. Any number that could be spun negatively going forward will be.
  
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- RaydocX
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:13pm
  @Roth… You are spot on.
  Suddenly gas will be a crippling cost for households. Food and clothing prices will be unacceptable. Inflation, recession, depression, war mongering, oh and a ‘lack of prosperity’ and a lack of ‘non partisan cooperstion’ will be the revolving outcries.
  
  But 4 years to ignore the lies beatsc4 more years of lies being ignored by the 4th estate!
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:29pm
Well, keine scheise!

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- AvengerK
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:38pm
  gosh what a surprise…thank goodness Hilda Solis is running the labor department.
  
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Alpha Protocol
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:28pm
I wonder if Obama’s release from prison will be delayed?

probably not…

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joe1286
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:27pm
Why not release phony numbers on time like they always do…help the relection effort…rather than lie to us later

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SocialistSlayer
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:25pm
Looks like Romney is going to have to clean house over at the Labor Department after he becomes president – obviously a bunch of Commies over there trying to support obama !

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- Vickie Dhaene
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:36pm
  Thinking the same. Remove any and all traitors of the Great Country. It is the will of the people!
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:38pm
  Dude really? Do you honestly think that will happen? If you do, then I have a bridge to sell you. I have to think you’re just trying to convince yourself on this.
  
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woodyee
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:25pm
What the heII does one have to do with the other?

Why was KFI’s AM640 Bill Handel Show (CA) covering Benghazi, and the lame-stream is covering (what this East Coaster – yes kiddies, I’m originally from NY) a common weather occurrence? You know, I listened to a reporter on Fox 11 (TV) fearfully reporting gusts of UP TO 40mph, as if it were a phenomenon.

IGNORE THEM! Call the stations! Email them! Demand they find out why our boys and ambassador were denied help! Who gave the order to stand down – three times!?!? WHY???

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Just_Us2
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:24pm
Wouldn’t this be good for Obama since those who lost jobs cannot file claims, thus making the numbers look better? My concern is how many of the walking democrat dead will be voting next week even though their body has washed out to sea.

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- landman1
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:29pm
  Really now, do you think a little rain and wind would stop these folks for signing up for unemployment checks. Heck no. It only stops the government from releasing reports that may look bad for the potus. I live about 35 miles inland from Cape Hatteras. You’d think the world was ending with all these bogus reports of 11′ high storm surges. Nothing but a few leaves coming off the trees and some rain here. Never let a calamity go unused is the Obama mantra. Not many people talking about Benghazi now is it?
  
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Oneirishman
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:23pm
People get out to VOTE!

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- Oldphoto678
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:12pm
  I already have. For President Obama.
  
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- huey6367
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:54pm
  and that is why we should not have early voting
  
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- jaylew
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:47pm
  @Huey amen. This early “drive thru” voting business has to stop….most college kids vote twice…once at school and then again at mommy and daddy’s house of record…just ask Bernie Sanders….he is the socialist who started that decades ago in Burlington Vermont.
  
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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:22pm
I think we can assume that it is bad and work from there. After all, if it was good, they’d release it, today.

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- OutOfTheAether
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:27pm
  MY thinking as well
  
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biohazard23
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:21pm
Shocker? Eh, not so much.

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- Carrie3570
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:44pm
  My first thought and what I was going to post was: SHOCKER!!! hahahaha! Glad I’m not alone in my thinking.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:53pm
  Heh heh heh… And to illustrate our thought process…. :)
  
  http://themacadvocate.com/Home/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/shocked.jpg
  
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wingedwolf
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:21pm
How desperate are these degenerate specimens of progressive/communism?

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floridareader
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:20pm
The report must be so bad that DOL doesn’t want to spoil even more Obama’s chances to catch some votes.

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huey6367
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:20pm
You are supposed to release those numbers the first Friday of each month. Sounds like they may have trended up which would hurt Obama in the election.

Release those numbers and don’t use the storm as an excuse.

The whole thing smells of politics.

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Whitehouse Mouse
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:19pm
No excuse is too low for Obama to twist in his favor.

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leasecommander
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:19pm
Imagine that? First a dramatic drop in the unemployment numbers in the weeks prior to the election and now the current numbers are going to be delayed because of a storm, my question is; “What in the world does the storm have to do with the BLS report ?????”

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- huey6367
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:21pm
  Not a thing. It’s politics Chicago style.
  
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- Master.Debater
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 4:17pm
  They have these things called BLS Regional Offices in states not affected by the hurricane with people working in them and these people have things called computers connected to other computers over a big network called the Internet…
  
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AJAYW
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:18pm
more of obama acting like a king.

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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:47pm
  or an immature community street organizer
  
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:17pm
How very convienent! Is that because its worse and Obama doesn’t want America to see the real truth!

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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:44pm
  yup
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:15pm
Must be bad news for Obama and crew….

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