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Unemployment on the up

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Unemployment on the up

GZERO Media · Oct 2, 2026, 3:56 PM UTC

Republicans won’t be happy with the final jobs report before the midterms. Job market growth was weaker than expected, adding fewer than half of the jobs economists had predicted. It was particularly bad for Black Americans, for whom the unemployment rate rose a whole percentage point to 7% – nearly double that of white Americans.…