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               For seven weeks, America experienced
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               a blackout
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               . Not a power outage engineered by a foreign adversary, but a 
self-inflicted one from a record-long government shutdown that shuttered federal agencies tasked with collecting and releasing timely economic data.
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               It couldn’t have come at a worse time for the U.S. 
economy
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               . Businesses are grappling with the fallout from tariffs, which are pushing consumer prices upward and intensifying uncertainty around hiring, expansion plans, and more. Employment growth is showing signs of stalling, causing a divide at the Federal Reserve over whether to slash borrowing costs further or sit still on interest rate cuts.
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               With the longest government 
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               Private sector alternatives fill in the blanks, but not all
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               It’s been difficult to gauge the state of the labor market during the shutdown. That’s where private alternatives come in, such as those published by the payroll processing firm ADP and Revelio Labs, among others.
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               In October, those measurements showed varying degrees of slowing job growth.
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               New data from Revelio Labs
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               showed the labor market contracting by 9,100 jobs 
in October. ADP, meanwhile,
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               said in its latest report
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               that employers added 42,000 jobs in October — dueling data points fueling anxiety about the state
of the job market.
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               “Some of the data that's been put out — you have some data saying we're going to slow down. You have some data saying we're in a worrying slow down,” Martha Gimbel, executive director at the Yale Budget Lab, told Quartz Washington. “You have some data saying the sky is falling. Which one is it?”
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               What most observers are taking away 
is the complementary role that private sector should play. They say federal agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics have a longer track record in developing research and survey methods for every economic sector, along with being able to draw on significant resources to carry it out.
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               “Private sources offer speed, specificity, and innovation that complement government data. They can track emerging trends, provide granular detail for particular 
sectors or geographies, and offer near real-time updates,” Jed Kolko, a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics,
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               wrote in a blog post
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               . “But they cannot match the breadth, representativeness, consistency, transparency, or public commitment of official statistics.”
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               The Fed’s data problems will linger beyond the shutdown
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               The next two-day Federal 
Reserve meeting is scheduled for Dec. 9 and 10. Central bank officials will decide whether to slash interest rates for a third time this year, or pause given the conflicting economic signals. Inflation is ticking up while employment growth is sharply slowing down. And it’s splitting the Fed over how to strike the balance in its dual mandate of low inflation and full employment.
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               Central bank officials will have more economic data at 
their disposal by the time they meet again. But it’s possible that will be imperfect data given the catch-up ahead for BLS and other government agencies.
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