With only four days to go until Tuesday's presidential election, the poor jobs figures could not have come at a worse time for Kamala Harris.
Even allowing for the hurricanes and the Boeing strike, the employment data was weak, suggesting demand for labour has eased at a crucial time.
Overall, the jobs growth was revised down by a combined 112,000 across August and September, indicating a troubling trend in the labor market.
Bradley Saunders from Capital Economics noted that adjusting for special circumstances, payrolls would only have increased by an underwhelming 102,000.
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