U.S. Unemployment Rate Rises to 7.3% in Shutdown-Skewed October; 204,000 Jobs Added
The American government shutdown was barely evident in the October jobs report Friday, as temporarily furloughed federal workers lifted the unemployment rate slightly while private employers added positions at a robust pace.
The unemployment rate rose to 7.3 percent from 7.2 percent in September, the Labor Department said, while companies added 204,000 workers to their payrolls.
The report, which was delayed by a week because of the shutdown, was especially tricky to predict simply because economists did not know how much of a swing the shutdown would cause.
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