Scott Horsley

Health care and hospitality continued to add workers.

but factories and warehouses shed jobs.

The unemployment rate inched up to 4.4 percent while the workforce grew.

Job gains for the two previous months were revised down by a total of 33,000 jobs.

While the information in today's release is somewhat stale, it's the last jobs report the Federal Reserve will get before its next decision in December on interest rates.

Snapshots of the October and November job market have been delayed by the government shutdown and

Some of the October figures, including the unemployment rate, were not gathered at all.

Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.

The report details employment and unemployment for the month of September.

And even though the numbers are a little stale by now, having gathered dust during the six-week government shutdown, analysts will be looking closely for any clues about the strength or weakness of the job market heading into the final months of the year.

This is the last jobs report the Federal Reserve will get before its next decision on interest rates in about three weeks.

The Labor Department says jobs numbers for October and November will be released together in mid-December.

After the Fed meeting, some of the usual October data, including the unemployment rate, won't be released at all because it wasn't collected while government number crunchers were furloughed.

Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.

The report details employment and unemployment for the month of September.

And even though the numbers are a little stale by now, having gathered dust during the six-week government shutdown, analysts will be looking closely for any clues about the strength or weakness of the job market heading into the final months of the year.

This is the last jobs report the Federal Reserve will get before its next decision on interest rates in about three weeks.

The Labor Department says jobs numbers for October and November will be released together in mid-December.

After the Fed meeting, some of the usual October data, including the unemployment rate, won't be released at all because it wasn't collected while government number crunchers were furloughed.

Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.