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  • Only 29,000 Jobs Were Added in September, and the Housing Market Is Still Frozen

    Only 29,000 Jobs Were Added in September, and the Housing Market Is Still Frozen

    Friday morning at 8:30 Eastern, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the September jobs report, and the number was hard to ignore: the US economy added just 29,000 jobs last month. Economists had expected 84,000. It was one of the weakest hiring months of the entire rate cycle, and it landed in a market already…