2024-10-05
9 分钟NPR.
It's jumps Friday.
Woo.
That's right.
Once a month we put aside the stock market.
Who cares?
We put aside all the other indicators.
Never heard of them.
And we check in on how the workers of America are doing.
Yeah, about two thirds of all american adults are in the labor force.
And in September, 254,000 jobs were added to the us economy.
It's an unexpectedly strong month.
The unemployment rate ticked down very slightly to 4.1%.
It's relieving news for workers.
After a pretty lackluster summer.
We are at this critical moment in the economy.
Unemployment in America is like being on a sheet of ice.
After a few cracks, the sheet of collapses, and a lot of people lose their jobs really fast.
And then it's usually a long, slow, steady struggle over years to get everyone back out of the icy waters of unemployment.
That has been the historic pattern for almost every recession over the past 70 years.