Posted on 11/20/2025 7:37:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
U.S. employers added a surprisingly solid 119,000 jobs in September, the government said, issuing a key economic report that had been delayed for seven weeks by the federal government shutdown.
The unemployment rate rose to 4.4% in September, highest since October 2021 and up from 4.3% in August, the Labor Department said Thursday. The unemployment rate rose partly because 470,000 people entered the labor market — either working or looking for work — in September and not all of them found jobs right away.
The increase in payrolls was more than double the 50,000 economists had forecast. But Labor Department revisions showed that the economy lost 4,000 jobs in August instead of gaining 22,000 as originally reported. Altogether, revisions shaved 33,000 jobs off July and August payrolls.
Healthcare and social assistance firms added more than 57,000 jobs in September, construction companies 19,000 and retailers almost 14,000. But factories shed 6,000 jobs and the federal government lost 3,000.
Average hourly wages rose just 0.2% from August and 3.8% from a year earlier, edging closer to the 3.5% year-over-year increase that the Federal Reserve's inflation fighters like to see.
During the 43-day U.S. government shutdown, investors, businesses, policymakers and the Federal Reserve were groping in the dark for clues about the health of the American job market because federal workers had been furloughed and couldn't collect the data.
The report comes at a time of considerable uncertainty about the economy. The job market has been strained by the lingering effects of high interest rates and uncertainty around Trump’s erratic campaign to slap taxes on imports from almost every country on earth. But economic growth at midyear was resilient.
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Why can’t they just get the number right the first time?
“The job market has been strained by the lingering effects of high interest rates and uncertainty around Trump’s erratic campaign to slap taxes on imports from almost every country on earth. But economic growth at midyear was resilient.”
No bias detected in this article. /src
“The government says”......first time i’ve ever heard the media report it that way...
Associated Press is the worst in the anti-Trump department. I have learned to screen out all Associated Press materials.
the housing market will continue to decline into 2026.
The Associated Press is against all Republicans. They are the worst of the worst. NPR/PBS uses them as a prime source of news.
Why can’t they just get the number right the first time?
Because people want instant answers and it is not always possible to proved the correct information instantly.
In spite of up to 2,000,000 ICE- and self-deportations since Trump tossed out *resident Bidet!
I don’t know but those revisions are not good news for the economy.
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