How states are scooping up federal workers

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  NPR.

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  This is the indicator for plan of money.

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  I'm Adrienne Ma.

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  I'm Whelan Wong.

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  And I'm Darian Woods.

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  What a week, guys!

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  I'm exhausted.

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  Now, we have to at least acknowledge the end of the global trading order as we once knew it.

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  RIP.

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  Skull emoji.

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  We are, of course, talking about the huge announcement from the Trump administration this week,

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  a cornucopia of new tariffs, which we are going to dig into a lot more next week.

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  But for now,

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  we have another important set of numbers out today that gives us a snapshot of how the American worker is doing.

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  You all know this hallowed ritual.

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  We call it Jobs Friday.

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  That's right.

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  Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report.

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  It shows the unemployment rate in March edged up to 4.2 percent, and the economy added 228,000 jobs.

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  On the surface, this is a strong jobs number, but after the break, we'll dig into why the good times may not last.

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