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The Labor Department<\/a> will bring back staff to work on a key consumer inflation report despite the ongoing federal government shutdown<\/a>, CNBC has learned.<\/p>\n The department\u2019s Bureau of Labor Statistics will \u201cpromptly resume\u201d work on September\u2019s Consumer Price Index data, a White House official said. The CPI report, which was originally scheduled for release on Oct. 15, is a well-known gauge of U.S. inflation that tracks a broad basket of goods and services for price changes over time.<\/p>\n The department had originally paused work on the CPI report due to its shutdown plan, the official said. But the Social Security Agency needs third-quarter CPI data for calculating and publishing annual cost-of-living adjustments before Nov. 1.<\/p>\n Other BLS data releases including the nonfarm payroll report haven\u2019t been<\/a> published as originally intended since the federal government shutdown due to a lapse in funding. The Senate on Thursday failed to pass funding bills<\/a> for the seventh time that would have ended the closure, which began last week.<\/p>\n Bloomberg News first reported<\/a> that the BLS was calling employees back to work on CPI data.<\/p>\n