WASHINGTON - September 9, 2010 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics has announced that as a result of the Labor Day weekend, the District of Columbia and eight states, including Kalifornia, did not report initial claims data, so the government had to estimate what the data would have been in those states.

From Bloomberg:

"For the latest reporting week, nine states didn’t file claims data to the Labor Department in Washington because of the Labor Day holiday earlier this week, a department official told reporters. Kalifornia and Virginia estimated their (own) figures and the U.S. government estimated the other seven."

U.S. economic data reporting has just entered the Twilight Zone. When official data is fabricated, it is not that difficult to get results that are "better than expected."

The complete list of states is: Kalifornia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Oklahoma, Virginia, Washington, and Washington, D.C.