{"id":13771,"date":"2024-11-01T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13771"},"modified":"2024-11-01T17:57:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:57:58","slug":"u-s-economy-adds-12000-jobs-in-october-far-fewer-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13771","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Economy Adds 12,000 Jobs in October, Far Fewer Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/u-s-economy-adds-12000-jobs-in-october-fewer-than-expected\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/u-s-economy-adds-12000-jobs-in-october-fewer-than-expected\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pjimage-2021-04-08T163057.181.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Report Clearing Biden Biden Approval Rating Americore Biden Acknowledge Hamas Biden Tells Israel Not to Occupy Gaza Biden impeachment Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden\u2019s Student Loan Cancellation\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. economy added 12,000 jobs in October, far fewer than expected and the lowest monthly total since December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>With the election just days away, it&#8217;s unclear how Friday&#8217;s report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor will impact voting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Total nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged in October (+12,000), and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bureau said<\/a>. &#8220;Employment continued to trend up in health care and government. Temporary help services lost jobs. Employment declined in manufacturing due to strike activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The economy and inflation have been the top issue on voters minds all year, according to most polls, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_96f91c78-865e-11ef-a44d-bbd8ed4698e9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Center Square Voters&#8217; Voice poll<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Employment in government continued its upward trend in October (+40,000), similar to the average monthly gain of 43,000 over the prior 12 months,&#8221; the bureau said. &#8220;Over the month, employment continued to trend up in state government (+18,000).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/u-s-economy-adds-12000-jobs-in-october-fewer-than-expected\/ The U.S. economy added 12,000 jobs in October, far&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13773,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13771\/revisions\/13773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}