Will BLS stop reporting payroll data this year?

This market will resolve to "Yes" if the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ceases regular publication of any of the following reports: monthly Employment Situation reports (nonfarm payrolls and unemployment rate), Consumer Price Index (CPI), Producer Price Index (PPI), Employment Cost Index, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), by December 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, it will resolve to "No." For purposes of this market, “ceases regular publication” means any of the following: - The BLS officially announces it will no longer publish the report on its regular schedule. - The BLS misses three consecutive scheduled releases of the report without providing the data within 30 days of each scheduled release date. - The BLS announces that the report is discontinued, terminated, or permanently suspended. - Legislative or executive action explicitly prohibits or defunds the publication of the report. The following do NOT qualify as cessation: - Temporary delays or postponements followed by subsequent publication (including delays caused by government shutdowns). - Changes in methodology, seasonal adjustment, or calculation methods while continuing publication. - Changes in publication frequency (e.g., monthly to quarterly) while maintaining regular releases. - Format changes (e.g., digital-only, layout changes). - Publishing preliminary or partial data with full data forthcoming. - Changes to specific components within a report while the overall data series continues. - Combining the report with other reports while still publishing the underlying data. - BLS delays the jobs report due to a shutdown, then publishes it. - BLS changes CPI methodology but continues publishing monthly CPI. - BLS shifts employment data from monthly to quarterly. - The Federal Reserve begins publishing employment data while BLS continues its own. - BLS website outage delays posting, but data is released via other channels. - BLS publishes preliminary data pending final adjustments. The primary resolution source will be a consensus of credible reporting.