The latest federal jobs report reveals rising unemployment among Black workers, disappearing factory jobs and lopsided growth in the health care sector.

The federal government is set to release an unusual jobs report on Tuesday, combining data from two consecutive months due to disruption caused by the 43-day government shutdown. The weeks-delayed report will offer the latest snapshot of the U.S. economy in an uneasy period bedeviled by a hiring slowdown and an uptick of inflation.

November’s job report may be distorted as a result of the government shutdown, limiting how much it will influence the Federal Reserve’s next interest rate decision in January.

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President Donald Trump promised voters in 2024 that if they returned him to the White House, his policies would deliver a blue-collar jobs boom.

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