{"id":79441,"date":"2026-10-02T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/us-added-just-29000-jobs-in-september-in-sharp-drop-from-last-months-gains\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:55:08","slug":"us-added-just-29000-jobs-in-september-in-sharp-drop-from-last-months-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/us-added-just-29000-jobs-in-september-in-sharp-drop-from-last-months-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"US added just 29,000 jobs in September in sharp drop from last month\u2019s gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Final jobs report before the midterm elections also shows the US unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.2%<\/p>\n<p>US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September, a sharp drop from last month\u2019s gains, in the final jobs report before the midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.2%, according to the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The numbers were just a fraction of economists\u2019 expectations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/economy\/jobs\/adp-says-private-sector-hiring-picked-up-in-september-d8c0f59e\">just under 70,000 new jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/oct\/02\/september-jobs-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final jobs report before the midterm elections also shows the US unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.2% US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September, a sharp drop from last month\u2019s gains, in the final jobs report before the midterm election. The country\u2019s unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.2%, according to the latest data from &#8230; <a title=\"US added just 29,000 jobs in September in sharp drop from last month\u2019s gains\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/us-added-just-29000-jobs-in-september-in-sharp-drop-from-last-months-gains\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US added just 29,000 jobs in September in sharp drop from last month\u2019s gains\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}