U.S. Added 250,000 Jobs in October; Unemployment at 3.7%
“Friday’s report, the last official economic reading before Americans vote on Tuesday, offered another reminder of the labor market’s strength. The economy has historically not played an outsize role in midterm elections, and this political season, border control, health care and Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court have gobbled up airtime. Still, ‘jobs and the economy’ was cited more frequently than other issues as the most important in a survey conducted in early October for The New York Times by the online research platform SurveyMonkey.”