that s the fastest job growth at any point of any president. our job market continues to show resilience as we navigate through this economic transition we re n.for for sometime i ve been saying what we need to do in this transition, we have to move from historically a strong economic recovery to a more stable recovery. you heard the president there. u.s. added 263,000 jobs in september, just slightly beating expectations. the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, back to where it was just before the pandemic hit. employers are hiring, but the labor market is slowing down. this is the lowest monthly jobs increase since april of last year. today s report may not be enough to keep the fed from raising interest rates again next month all in an effort to try to squash inflation. investors are not happy today. the dow, s&p 500, nasdaq all down. all right. with us now is senior white house correspondent phil mattingly, cnn reporter matt egan, cnn economics and political commentat
this investigation of the police force and their response, the school police force. they have been very unhappy, at times calling for him to resign, for his resignation, as well. finally now word coming that he does intend to start the process of his retirement there in uvalde. he has been someone who s been part of this community his whole life. he was fairly well liked before all this happened. he s been with the community, he s been with the school for 31 years. his father was the superintendent before that. so people thought there was unfair process in terms of how he got the job. but certainly he could never imagine, you know, what he s faced in the last several months. and just the handling of all of this, how poor the school district has handled this, how they ve disrespected these families. again, this is something families wanted. they were protesting outside that school all week. and now finally word comes that he is going to retire. it will be a process. it s not g