Official figures to be released on Friday as Obama calls on Congress to push through his latest job-creation proposals Washington and Wall Street will be nervously awaiting official jobs figures on Friday as President Obama pushes Congress to vote through his latest jobs plan and investors look for signs that recovery is taking hold. September’s non-farm payroll figures , expected on Friday morning, follow a week when Obama and senior Washington officials have called on Washington to act on the jobs crisis. Both Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner have warned that Washington needs to take swift action to address the US’s job crisis