By: Michael M. Grynbaum, Erica L. Green, Maggie Astor, Alan Rappeport, Reid J. Epstein, Michael C. Bender, Adam Nagourney, Neil Vigdor, Julie Bosman, Amy Qin, Annie Karni, Jazmine Ulloa, Campbell Robertson, Jonathan Weisman, Michael Gold, Shashank Bengali, Alan Blinder, Mattathias Schwartz
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.