The monthly job number, which comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said the labor market added only 12,000 jobs during the month of October.
The number job economists predicted, however, was 100,000 job openings just weeks before Election Day.
The U.S. unemployment rate is hovering at 4.1% heading into Election Day.
"This jobs report is the worst since the pandemic, and it is a sign of things to come if Americans give Kamala Harris a second term," Elaine Parker, of Job Creators Network Foundation, bluntly tells AFN.
On the Job Creators website, a related article dug deeper into the Labor Department statistics for October. Federal government jobs grew by 40,000, which means the labor market technically contracted if you remove those taxpayer-paid positions.
In the private sector, manufacturing jobs fell by 46,000, the article said, citing the statistics.
The article by Job Creators CEO Alfredo Ortiz also points out the revised job numbers for August and September – when the federal government takes a second look at its own figures – shrank by a whopping 112,000. That downward revision of previous figures continues a trend of the Biden-Harris administration.
"I'm not surprised by the low number,” Parker advises, “and I'm certainly not surprised by the revision, because we generally see these really big revisions every month.”
Some business analysts and politicians are blaming the jobs numbers on hurricane-hit states, such as Florida and North Carolina, and a Boeing strike is also being blamed for adding to the poor-looking numbers.
Countering that argument, Parker says the United States is a massive country that is not just affected by a natural disaster and an airline strike.
"Trump and Harris made up the last two administrations,” Parker says. “So voters can just simply look at their records to see who was better and see who they should reward with a second term."
