By: Alan Blinder, Maggie Astor, Annie Karni, Simon J. Levien, Reid J. Epstein, Shashank Bengali, Jonathan Weisman, Chris Cameron, Patricia Mazzei, Adam Nagourney, Neil Vigdor, Alan Rappeport, Tim Balk, Maggie Haberman, Amy Qin, Michael Gold, Michael C. Bender
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.