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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market likely bounced back last month from a disappointing September.
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market → bounce → September
Layoffs are low, and most Americans enjoy unusual job security.
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Americans → enjoy → security
But hiring has probably remained too modest to deliver much relief to those looking for work.
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hiring → remain → work
And wage gains haven’t been keeping up with persistently high inflation.
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gains → keep → inflation
When the Labor Department releases new data on October job creation and unemployment Friday, they’re expected to show that employers added 65,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate remained low at 4.2%, according to a survey of forecasters by the data firm FactSet.
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rate → release → firm
The jobs report comes three days after voters handed a stunning defeat to President Donald Trump and his Republican Party in midterm elections.
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voters → come → elections
Frustrated with the state of the economy — and especially the high cost of living – Americans handed full control of the U.S. Congress to the Democrats.
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Americans → hand → Democrats
Yet the American economy and job market have proven resilient in the face of a series of shocks — Trump’s double-digit taxes on imports and the war with Iran, which has driven U.S. gasoline prices above $4 a gallon and pinched family budgets.
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which → prove → budgets
Gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — advanced at a sprightly 3.4% annual pace from July through September, lifted by strong consumer spending and booming investment in artificial intelligence.
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product → advance → intelligence
So far this year, employers — companies, government agencies and nonprofits — have added an average of 68,000 jobs a month, including a disappointing 29,000 last month.
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employers → add → 29,000
That is modest by historic standards but an improvement over 2025 when monthly job creation averaged 9,700.
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creation → average → 9,700
Last year, high interest rates and President Donald Trump’s unpredictable trade policies discouraged hiring.
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rates → discourage → hiring
Despite recovering this year, hiring remains well below the average of 166,000 monthly jobs created in 2023 and 2024, let alone the 491,000 a month recorded during the 2021-2022 hiring boom that followed COVID-19 lockdowns.
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that → recover → lockdowns
Economists see a “low-fire, low-hire’’ environment in which employers are reluctant to let go of existing workers but aren’t in any hurry to hire new ones.
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employers → see → ones
Young people entering the workforce, or those who’ve lost their jobs, can struggle to find work.
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who → enter → work
The United States doesn’t need as many new jobs as it once did to keep the unemployment rate from rising.
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it → need → rate
That is because baby boomer retirements and Trump’s immigration crackdown mean fewer people are competing for work.
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people → mean → work
In late 2023, the so-called break-even point was around 166,000 new jobs a month.
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point → call → 2023
It’s now just over 5,000, according to an estimate by Yale University’s Budget Lab, which drew on an earlier Federal Reserve report.
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which → ’ → report
Meanwhile, rising prices have pinched pay for millions of Americans.
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prices → rise → Americans
After taking inflation into account, average hourly earnings fell 0.7% in September – the sixth straight year-over-year drop and one explanation for voters’ fury at the polls Tuesday.
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earnings → take → polls
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