September job growth outperforms estimates

 CNBC:

Companies added jobs at a faster-than-expected pace in September due in good part to a surge in manufacturing hires, according to a report Wednesday from ADP.

 The firm’s monthly private-sector jobs count showed growth of 749,000, ahead of the 600,000 expected from a Dow Jones economist survey.

The report, done in conjunction with Moody’s Analytics, comes two days ahead of the more closely watched Labor Department count of nonfarm payrolls growth.

That report is expected to show an addition of 800,000 after August’s 1.37 million, with the unemployment rate projected to fall two-tenths of a point to 8.2%.

However, during the coronavirus pandemic, ADP’s initial estimate has often trailed the official government count by a significant margin, indicating potential upside for the September count. The initial ADP estimate for August was just 428,000 but was revised upward to 481,000, still a good distance from the Labor Department tally.

For September, ADP found that manufacturing added 130,000 jobs. The only sector to grow more was trade, transportation and utilities, which grew by 186,000.

Leisure and hospitality, a sector especially hard hit during the pandemic, saw a gain of 92,000. Education and health services rose 90,000, though all the growth came on the health-care side as education lost 11,000.

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Small business continues to lag in employment growth because of Democrat lockdown policies in many states they control and Pelosi holding stimulus funds for the group hostage to her crazy agenda.  But the overall job boost shows a recovery which would be throttled by Biden's lockdown policies.

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