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Job growth gives inflation-saddled Democrats a lifeline heading into Election Day
The final jobs report before Tuesday’s midterm elections gave President Biden a thin lifeline for a closing campaign argument, but it was likely too little, too late to ease voters’ year-long concerns about historically high inflation and eroding wages. Employers added 261,000 jobs in October, the Labor Department reported Friday, a performance better than Wall…