TRENDING: Robinhood Leads 7 Top S&P 500 Stocks In 2025 The biggest unknown about Friday's jobs report isn't whether the unemployment rate will rise or fall. It's whether the Labor Department will actually deliver a jobs report on Friday. The odds aren't looking great, with a 68% chance of a government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, according to the Polymarket prediction market. A government shutdown could deprive the Federal Reserve of key data on job growth and inflation at a time as i ...