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- The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will release the November jobs report on December 16 after a 43-day government shutdown delayed data collection.
- Economists expect the report to show a modest gain of 40,000 jobs and the unemployment rate to remain at 4.4 percent.
- The BLS will include October data in this report due to the shutdown's impact on data collection.
- Experts warn the results may be muddled.
