We're all about jobs today, who's working, who isn't, and while we're at it, how well

are the Feds tools working?

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.

In Washington, D.C., I'm Kimberly Adams in Forkai, Rizdal.

It's Friday, April 7th.

Good to have you along.

The big monthly jobs report came out this morning, and the employment picture for March looked

pretty much like what we were expecting.

The Labor Department said non-farm payrolls, aka jobs, grew by 236,000 last month, knocking

the unemployment rate down just a bit to 3.5%.

But of course, there's lots to glean from this report about what's really happening

in this economy, and to help with that, I'm joined by Katherine Rampell at the Washington

Post, and Kate Davidson at Bloomberg, hey you two.

So Kate, let's start with you first, with unemployment solo, and having been low for

a while, who's still left on the sidelines of the labor market?

We may have lost her.

Katherine, you want to take a stab at it?

Sure, sure, happy to do so.

So labor force participation rates have pretty much recovered once you adjust for age.

There was actually an interesting paper from the New York Fed recently looking at this.

There were a lot of retirements, but among working age people, we're basically back to

the participation rates that we had before.

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