February jobs report, firing squad execution, bomb travel chaos & more
CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 7 March 2025
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| 0:31.3 | Hello from CNN. I'm Joe Beck. With the five things you need to know for Friday, March 7th. |
| 0:38.2 | The US economy added 151,000 jobs last month, while the unemployment rate ticked up slightly |
| 0:45.8 | from 4 to 4.1%. That's according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and it's an increase |
| 0:53.1 | from January's revised gains of |
| 0:55.1 | 125,000, but slightly less than economists had predicted. It marks another solid month of job |
| 1:01.6 | gains, and a continuation of a historic expansion of the labor market, after a January report |
| 1:07.8 | that experts said was likely influenced by seasonal factors, frigid |
| 1:12.0 | weather and the LA wildfires. |
| 1:14.8 | But the Trump administration's massive federal cuts and people's feelings of economic uncertainty |
| 1:21.1 | helped fuel a recession-level spike in layoff plans last month. |
| 1:26.6 | Meanwhile, President Donald Trump says he's told cabinet members |
| 1:30.7 | that they're in charge of staffing at their agencies, not Elon Musk. Trump held a meeting |
| 1:36.8 | with his administration heads last night, as business leaders and Republicans have complained |
| 1:42.0 | about his right-hand man. We asked CNN's Kevin Liptack for the |
| 1:45.7 | details. Joe, there had been some growing discomfort about how Musk was operating among Republicans |
| 1:51.5 | on Capitol Hill, but also among these members of Trump's cabinet, these Senate-confirmed heads of |
| 1:56.6 | these agencies' departments, who had some concerns about this steamrolling that Musk had been doing |
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