The Breakfast Table

On Friday the Labor Department said US employers added 165,000 jobs in October. Unemployment, the share of people who want work but cannot find it, eased to 4.1 percent. AFP reported that experts had expected only 65,000 new jobs.

Hospitals, factories and transportation companies hired more people, while restaurants and construction companies let workers go. Average hourly earnings rose 3.1 percent over the past year.

Prices rose faster. Inflation, the rise in prices over time, reached 3.7 percent in September. So most workers can buy a little less than before.

The Federal Reserve, the US central bank, raised its main interest rate in September. Its next decision is on December 8-9.

A cyclone is a huge spinning storm. Two hit India's east coast in a week. Cyclone Murasu came ashore near Ongole, in Andhra Pradesh, at about 1:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 3, after Cyclone Arnab brought floods to Odisha.

Before Murasu, officials planned to move about 30,000 people to safety. No deaths or injuries had been reported at that time. The storm still uprooted trees and power poles, wrecked fishing boats and hit crops in Prakasam and Bapatla districts.

In Odisha's Ganjam district, all the blocks, the small local areas, were affected, with roads cut off and houses damaged. The Odisha government sent the central government a memorandum, a formal written request, asking for Rs 2,526 crore for relief and rebuilding in Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal. An eight-member central team has visited the damaged areas. The state's Congress chief, Bhakta Charan Das, wants Rs 5,000 crore and a national calamity declaration for the floods.