Good evening. I'm on the Navas. Jeff Bennett is away on the news hour tonight. Employers

notch another month of strong hiring. The Deputy Treasury Secretary joins us to discuss what that means for the wider U.S. economy.

The death toll from Israeli strikes in Lebanon passes 2,000 people while in Gaza displaced residents mark one year of war.

And a week after Hurricane Helene ripped through their city, residents in Asheville, North Carolina contend with a lack of basic needs

and an uncertain future.

Climate change is real.

This kind of devastation really sends things home,

how fast things are changing. Welcome to the News Hour. The Labor Department today issued one of the last jobs

reports before the presidential election and the numbers are strong.

254,000 jobs were added in September beating expectations.

The unemployment rate fell from 4.2 to 4.1 percent, and wages were up,

averaging a gain of about 4% compared to a year ago.

Overall, the report paints a picture of a robust American economy, which for most voters

remains their top issue this election year.

For more, let's turn now to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adiemo.

Welcome back to the News Hour.

Thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

It's great to be here.

So overall, it is a very strong report. If there's any weak spot, there's some lingering concern around manufacturing specifically. It's the only sector where they lost jobs. What explains that?

You're right to do it's a very strong jobs report and not only the report this time

but the backward revisions that showed that we created more jobs over the summer

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