New U.S. jobs report 'shockingly low' in October due to hurricanes, worker strikes

The U.S. added 12,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate stands at 4.1%, which matches the previous month's level and remains historically low. Fallout from hurricanes and labor strikes likely caused an undercount of the nation’s workers.

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[jordanslingluff]

Not shocking at all. Poor and middle class people keep talking about how horrible the economy is.. . . Guess uou elitist are just now figuring it out

[The-Based]

Don’t worry, Kamala will figure out a way to blame Trump for it

[keithfjackson]

subtract 700, 000 for government jobs this year. WAY DOWN!!!

[MarkTurner-vsuc]

We need 50 million foreign crimanals to fill all the jobs! Not enough? Next up, 100 million crimanals .

[michaeld]

Keep propping up harris

Your propaganda is backfiring

[TimothyJohnLukeSmithPSA]

This is bad. This woman is selling a load of crap, is she working for Washington?

[engineking]

I cant vote for Kamala, sorry. Latinos fro Trump

[GeoffFilutze]

Nobody can pay bills. We are 1 trillion in credit card debt... but we relate to j. Lo. Ur about to find out on Tuesday

[Timbo-fs]

They got caught lying about the job number for the last year and 12, 000 is probably a lie too 😮

[TheSaint-gdtj]

It's called, Bidenomics. TRUMP2024🇺🇸

[GrillVogel]

28k private sector jobs lost. Dare you report on that, ABC.

[TobieWoodel]

Economists expected 112, 000 jobs!! ABC you need to do better. Gaslighting doesn’t look good on you.

[chrisconger]

12000 jobs added will be adjusted to losing 100, 000 jobs in 6 months

[daniellepreyar]

These people are insufferable. A measily 12k jobs. Yeah, lets keep on voting for the same ones who are responsible for this nonsense. Sickening.

[NONEISH]

maybe an economy that sucks is to blame.

[RetroFilmRush]

The private sector is losing jobs at this point. Government jobs are masking this

[cobaltusa]

And what's crazy is a good portion of that 12000 Jobs are government jobs. Think about that.

[TheCarterKent]

"MUCH LOWER THAN NORMAL"??? ...it was TEN TIMES LESS than they said it would be.

[dauferm]

If the numbers are correct. They were exaggerated last time… so yeah stop telling me the economy is the best it’s ever been since it’s not true for the average person

[rw]

Why would worker strikes at the port contribute to job creation? It didn’t last long.