September jobs report released: Delayed by the government shutdown, people have been awaiting the overdue September jobs report, which was finally released today. Overall, it looks OK: Employers added more jobs than expected that month, though the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4 percent.
The jobs reports for October and November will be released in December, and conditions do change rather quickly, so some have already bemoaned this jobs report as useless and out of date. Still, it's better to have some data than none, even if it must be taken with a grain of salt.
