By: Maggie Haberman, Simon J. Levien, Reid J. Epstein, Amy Qin, Michael C. Bender, Alan Rappeport, Maggie Astor, Jonathan Weisman, Neil Vigdor, Patricia Mazzei, Alan Blinder, Annie Karni, Chris Cameron, Tim Balk, Shashank Bengali, Michael Gold, Adam Nagourney
A sharp October hiring slowdown, which was expected because of a large labor strike at Boeing and two hurricanes in the Southeast, came ahead of campaign stops by Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin.