Job growth defies expectations but questions remain about overall health of economy

Paul Solman:

Leisure and hospitality, which hemorrhaged workers during the pandemic, finally returned to pre-COVID levels in September, adding 96,000 jobs, most of the gains in food and drinking places.

And yet persistent inflation, sky-high interest rates, strikes by autoworkers, actors, health care workers, plenty of evidence to support the idea of a two-faced economy.

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