The jobs report abhors a vacuum. A government shutdown prevented the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday from issuing its monthly report on job creation , so the business press told us what the report would reveal if there were one. “U.S. Job Growth Is Slowing Even Without Government Data to Show It,” said Bloomberg. “Shutdown Delays Jobs Report,” said The Washington Post , “Obscuring Potential Economic Problems.” But the absence of a BLS jobs report allows Trump to dismiss these alternate