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Oct 2 2026

US payrolls rise just 29,000 in September as the information sector sheds another 10,000 jobs

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First print: unemployment 4.2%, July and August revised down a combined 60,000, information down 10,000, professional and business services down 9,000. The white-collar sectors where AI tools landed first keep shrinking while health care and construction hire.

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