Capitalism Institute·1 hour ago·Monday, November 9, 2026, 12:02 AM

Employers smash forecasts with 165,000 October jobs as unemployment falls to 4.1%

The U.S. labor market delivered a decisive October surprise, adding 165,000 jobs and driving unemployment down to 4.1 percent, well ahead of what economists predicted. Breitbart News reported that payrolls jumped far past Wall Street’s outlook, while the jobless rate slipped from the 4.2 percent level economists had expected to hold steady. Forecasters had looked

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