September Job Growth Less Than Forecast (sorry dupe)

[democraticgator]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Companies added 96,000 jobs to their payrolls in September, fewer than economists forecast for the last employment report before Election Day, highlighting a modest pace of hiring that has become an issue in President Bush's bid for another term.

The four hurricanes striking Florida and other coastal states the past two months "appears to have held down employment growth, but not enough to change (the overall jobs picture) materially," the Labor Department said Friday in assessing September's national employment situation.

The nation's civilian unemployment rate remained at 5.4 percent.


-Im so glad we turned that corner.