Amer­i­ca Added 29,000 Jobs in Sep­tem­ber, Unem­ploy­ment Ticked Up to 4.2%

The U.S. econ­o­my added 29,000 jobs in Sep­tem­ber and the unem­ploy­ment rate rose to 4.2 per­cent.
Econ­o­mists had expect­ed the econ­o­my to add 85,000 jobs and the unem­ploy­ment to hold steady at 4.1 per­cent.
The U.S. labor mar­ket has expe­ri­enced a sig­nif­i­cant shift away from depen­dence on an immi­gra­tion-dri­ven work­force. Jobs num­bers that may seem ane­mic com­pare …