Census this week: August trade data Oct. 6, wholesale Oct. 8 — and parents gave grown kids $26.6 billion

The U.S. Census Bureau’s weekly note to subscribers, sent Oct. 5, 2026, flags two economic data releases this week — plus a new count of how much money parents send grown children who have moved out.

Release dates: U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services for August 2026 comes out Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern (5:30 a.m. Pacific). Monthly Wholesale Trade: Sales and Inventories for August 2026 follows Thursday, Oct. 8, at 10 a.m. Eastern (7 a.m. Pacific). Dates and times are from the Bureau’s economic indicator calendar: https://www.census.gov/economic-indicators/calendar-listview.html . Trade data: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/index.html . Wholesale data: https://www.census.gov/wholesale/index.html .

Parents and grown kids: About 2.6 million U.S. parents gave $26.6 billion in 2024 to 3.7 million of their children age 21 or older who lived outside their household, according to the Bureau’s 2025 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The median amount was $4,725 for the year. Most of those parents (72.7%) supported one adult child; 18.8% supported two and 8.6% supported three or more. The total leaves out money spent on adult children still living at home — and in 2024, 58.3% of men and 56.4% of women ages 18 to 34 lived with their parents. The Bank of Mom and Dad, it seems, never closes. Read the America Counts story (Sept. 30, 2026): https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2026/09/parental-support-to-adult-children.html

Manufacturing Day: The Bureau marked Manufacturing Day — the first Friday in October, which fell on Oct. 2 this year — with infographics and data visualizations on U.S. manufacturing that anyone can download and share: https://www.census.gov/topics/business-economy/manufacturing/library/visualizations.html

For the pumpkin-spice crowd: the Bureau also built a fall Kahoot! quiz from its own data, covering pumpkin and apple exports, U.S. places with spooky-sounding names, and which state is projected to raise the most turkeys. It may be the only federal survey this year where a wrong answer costs you nothing; Notice Nearby will not spoil the turkey question. https://create.kahoot.it/details/2404ec91-0780-4d13-ae43-427bf12a7ef6

This Notice Nearby publisher-desk brief is based on the Census Bureau’s “This Week: Fall Fun With Census Bureau Data” email sent to publisher@noticenearby.com on Oct. 5, 2026 (public copy: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USCENSUS/bulletins/42e0a79 ), with release dates and survey figures checked on census.gov. It is not a legal notice and not Legal Publication. Photo: organic pumpkins at Peebles Farm in Augusta, Arkansas, by Christopher Willis, USDA/FPAC, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped and resized).