{"id":274612,"date":"2025-11-21T01:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274612\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T01:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:55:13","slug":"us-adds-more-jobs-than-expected-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274612\/","title":{"rendered":"US adds more jobs than expected in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A private report this month by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas found the number of job cuts in October hit the highest number for the month since 2003, as high-profile companies including Amazon, Target and UPS announced reductions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verizon.com\/about\/news\/building-stronger-verizon\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">telecoms giant Verizon also said it was cutting more than 13,000 jobs, external<\/a>, citing in part &#8220;changes in technology and in the economy&#8221; for the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The announcements have raised concerns about cracks in what has been seen as a &#8220;low-hire, low-fire&#8221; job market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But evidence of wider deterioration has been elusive, as claims for unemployment benefits remain stable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Health care firms, restaurants and bars led the job gains in September, while transportation and warehousing firms, manufacturers and the government shed jobs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The September jobs report may be backward looking but offers reassurance that the labour market wasn&#8217;t crumbling before the government shutdown,&#8221; said Nancy Vanden Houten, lead economist at Oxford Economics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, she noted noting that the data from October is likely to be weaker, due to government layoffs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A private report this month by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas found the number of job cuts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-274612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}