The September jobs report showed a gain of just 194,000 non-farm jobs — well short of the 500,000 that Wall Street analysts had predicted. The September report follows a disappointing August jobs report a month earlier. “This is quite a deflating report,” said Nick Bunker, economic research director at Indeed Hiring Lab. “The hope was that August was an anomaly, but the fact is, the delta variant was still with us in September.”