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The unemployment rate rose to 4.4% in September, the highest since October 2021 and up from 4.3% in August, the Labor Department said Nov. 20 in a delayed report.

The Labor Department said it will not release a full jobs report for October because the government shutdown meant it couldn't calculate the unemployment rate and some other key numbers.

The Commerce Department reported Sept. 26 that its personal consumption expenditures price index was up 2.7% in August from a year earlier.

The Commerce Department had previously estimated second-quarter growth at 3.3%.

The Labor Department reported Sept. 9 that employers added 911,000 fewer jobs than originally reported from April 2024 through March.

The first-quarter GDP drop, the first retreat of the U.S. economy in three years, was caused by a surge in imports as businesses scrambled to bring in foreign goods ahead of Trump’s tariffs.

The Labor Department reported Aug. 14 that PPI rose 0.9% last month from June, the biggest jump in more than three years. Compared with a year earlier, wholesale prices rose 3.3%.

The Labor Department reported Aug. 1 that revisions shaved a stunning 258,000 jobs off May and June payrolls.

American gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — rebounded after falling at a 0.5% clip from January through March, the Commerce Department reported July 30.

President Donald Trump's lightning round of global trade negotiations with dozens of countries has yielded two deals, with the U.K. and Vietnam, and a framework for a deal with China.