Economic Health Difficult To Gauge During Shutdown

WASHINGTON — The partial shutdown of the U.S. government has begun to make it harder to assess the health of the economy by delaying or distorting key reports on growth, spending and hiring. Government data on home construction and retail sales, for example, won’t be released next week because staffers who compile those reports have been furloughed.

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