While the government shutdown has postponed official reports on the health of the jobs market, economist Mark Zandi believes nongovernment data shows that the labor market continues to be on weak footing. In a series of posts on X, the chief economist for Moody’s Analytics warned that delays to government data, in particular the nonfarm payrolls report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), had created “a serious problem for assessing the health of the economy and making good policy