October Jobs Report Won't Include Unemployment Rate, Hassett Says

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00:00The September jobs report has already been cooked, and we expect we might get that next week.

00:04It just hasn't been released. The October employment report for the payroll side will be

00:11able to be calculated, but the household survey wasn't completed, so we'll get sort of half the

00:16jobs report. Most everything else, I think, we'll be able to concoct the correct number after we

00:22look back, but we will never know what the unemployment rate was in October. People were

00:26actually brought back in as essential employees a couple days early so that the furloughed

00:31employees could get their checks as soon as possible, and I was really pleased to see some

00:34of my furloughed employees show up today, and there's a lot of hugging and smiling. I think

00:39that the payments will come probably early next week. I think that's what I mean, maybe even before.

00:45There really has been an aggressive effort to get people to get their checks as soon as possible.