America’s job market got back on its feet in October.
The U.S. economy rebounded from the hurricanes and added 261,000 jobs, the best performance of the Trump administration.
Unemployment inched down to 4.1%, the lowest since December 2000.
“This labor market is still really firing on all cylinders,” says Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West in San Francisco.
But wages took a step back. They grew only 2.4% in October compared with a year earlier, behind September’s number. The absence of better wage growth and inflation is one of the biggest mysteries in the economy.
