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Employers Added 638,000 Jobs In October

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Published November 6, 2020 at 12:33 PM CST

The October jobs numbers are out and employers added 638,000 jobs — and that helped bring the unemployment rate down a full percentage point.

Mike Regan, senior editor at Bloomberg News, explains what this means for the economy.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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