In November, U.S. employers added 210,000 jobs to the economy which is the smallest numbers of jobs added since December 2020. This number is fewer than expected, economists expected more than double that number. Despite this bleak number, unemployment fell to 4.2% and the labor force total participation rate reached 61.8%, the highest since March 2020.
See "Jobs added in November don’t meet economists’ expectations", Anneken Tappe, CNN, December 3, 2021