i m jose diaz-balart we begin this busy hour with breaking news. the brand new jobs report shows the u.s. economy added 261,000 jobs in october. which is higher than expected, but the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7% from last month s 3.5%. this as the hispanic unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. the black unemployment rate remains mostly unchanged and there you see the numbers at 5.9%. it s the last jobs report before election day on tuesday with the economy and the cost of living ranking as the top issue on voters minds headed to the polls. joining us with more is business and data reporter brian chung. whatever your takeaways. i want to rehighlight again the numbers we got about an hour and a half ago. in september we had 315,000 jobs added. the new jobs for october showing 261,000 jobs added in the month. but something that caught a lot of attention was the 3.7% unemployment rate that we clocked in as of october. that was a little bit higher than the 3.5% that we g
have a job as of this hour. we knew rumors were persisting that elon musk planned to lay off perhaps as much as half the workforce of twitter. and as yesterday nbc saw an email that went out to employees informing them to check their email this morning to figure out if they ve been locked out or perhaps receive notice at personal emails they would be laid off. this comes at a time when twitter is going to be one of the main avenues of disinformation, misinformation, going into the midterm elections. so we re seeing report after report, in some cases on twitter itself from employees in groups like an algo rhythmic transparency research group, one that looks into the ways in which algorithms can look into misinformation like our entire team has been laid off. we know, as you mentioned, there is a lawsuit in the works against twitter.
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