A surprisingly strong jobs report crushed economists expectations this morning. U. S. Companies on a hiring tear in september, creating 336,000 new jobs, nearly double what economists were expecting. President biden did hope to take some credit for it, talking up his bidenomics plan to help the economy. Listen to this. Mr. President , can you be specific about what you did to try to reappropriate those border funds, especially when democrats controlled both chambers . I was told that i had no choice. That, you know, Congress Passes legislation to build something, whether its an aircraft carrier, a wall or provide for a tax cut. I cant so thats not the right sound bite. Nevertheless, President Biden did try to take credit for the surprising jobs report. We have cnns matt egan to break it all down for us. Walk you throughs it. Where were the biggest job gains . Reporter boris, these were Blockbuster Numbers and the best part is virtually no one saw it coming, 336,000 jobs added, you know
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the business of christmas shopping already in full swing. that means employers are looking for people to do the ringing up at the cash register. cheryl casone from our sister network, fox business, is here with the top five companies hiring today. i ve looked at the list, i heard of all of them. i love all the companies. they re look for workers. let s start are amazon. to be clear, they re all still hiring and look for people. yesterday with cyber monday, they were very strong for cyber monday. excellent. everybody is in the amazon and you can work for them. 80,000 holiday positions available at amazon. thousands of these jobs will turn into full-time jobs. amazon has been on a hiring tear. yesterday you did a segment about how they ve got a bunch of robots. but they still need actual people. they need people for sorting, for package, labeling, things like that. those fulfillment centers. they re opening more and more, including some here in this