A large US flag is seen on the facade of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Washington DC, United States on September 8, 2025. <\/p>\n
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The Labor Department<\/a> will bring back staff to work on a key consumer inflation report despite the ongoing federal government shutdown<\/a>, CNBC has learned.<\/p>\n The department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics will “promptly resume” work on September’s consumer price index data, a White House official said. The report will come out at 8:30 a.m. ET on Oct. 24, nine days after it was originally scheduled, according to<\/a> the BLS.<\/p>\n The department had originally paused work on the CPI report \u2013 which tracks a broad basket of goods and services for price changes over time \u2014 because of its shutdown plan, the official said. But the Social Security Administration needs third-quarter CPI data for calculating and publishing annual cost-of-living adjustments before Nov. 1.<\/p>\n Other BLS data releases including the nonfarm payroll report haven’t been<\/a> published as originally intended since the federal government shutdown due to a lapse in funding. The Senate on Thursday failed to pass funding bills<\/a> for the seventh time that would have ended the closure, which began last week.<\/p>\n