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The economic buzzword of this week, jobs from American public media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdal Monday, today 28 August, good as always to have you

along.

We will be getting data on jobs this week, lots and lots of data on jobs tomorrow.

It'll be Jolts, the job openings and labor turnover survey along with the quits rate

that's people leaving their jobs voluntarily for new and one assumes better paying jobs.

Then on Wednesday, it's private payrolls from ADP, first time claims for unemployment

on Thursday and then Friday, the biggie, the August jobs report.

With jobs of course come paychecks and one of the key things that people are going to

be watching in that Friday jobs report is wage growth.

It has been blamed by some and discounted by others as a key driver of inflation.

Average hourly earnings, which is the official nomenclature, we're growing it nearly 6% annually

in the spring of last year, then fell back a bit when the Fed started raising interest

rates.

As Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman reports to get us going, today there are some signs

that wage growth may be slowing further.

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