2025-03-07
8 分钟Npr.
This is the indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Darian Woods.
And I'm Waylon Wong.
It is jobs Friday.
That means we have the latest numbers on the US labor market from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The jobs report shows that 151,000 jobs were added in February.
The unemployment rate nudged up to 4.1% from 4% in January.
The monthly jobs report is one of the major economic indicators that we rely
on the government to produce.
And generally, we trust that this data gives us an accurate snapshot of how US Workers are doing.
But recently we've seen government data disappearing from public websites.
We've seen Doge getting access to sensitive information.
And in the past week,
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has disbanded two committees of
outside experts that advise the government on economic data.
He also talked about changing how gross domestic product gets calculated.
And people like Erika Groschen are concerned.
Erika is a former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
She was also on one of the committees that Lutnick just nixed.