Nightly News   |  November 04, 2011

Economy adds 80K jobs in October

Employers added 80,000 jobs to their payrolls in October, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 9 percent. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: Here at home the jobs number for October is in. Employers added 80,000 jobs to their payrolls last month. That was a bit below what economists expected. Unemployment rate ticked down a notch, however, to 9 percent, which is the lowest it has been in six months time. The job