U.S. Hiring Slowed in September, With Employers Adding 29,000 Jobs
U.S. hiring slowed in September as employers added just 29,000 jobs, PBS NewsHour reports. The payroll number carries wide-reaching implications for consumer prices and interest rates, and it lands about a month before Americans head to the polls for the midterm elections — one reading of the economy arriving in the middle of a rate debate and an election campaign at the same time.