October Jobs Report: Government plus 40,000 . . . private sector minus 28,000

[Gaius]

Big impact from

• White collar layoffs
• the Hurricanes,
• the Boeing strike
• government hiring
• hiring by gov’t dependent parts of the private sector,
• and whatever caused the mass layoff of Temp workers.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

[Gaius]

Meanwhile here is the BLS data regarding (ahem) Asylum seekers