Friday Mid-Day Update: April 4, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including job growth and employment rates, the implications of tariffs on the economy, ongoing changes in leadership within the NSA, and the departure of Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum.
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| 0:49.3 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America Show Midday Update for Friday, April |
| 0:53.7 | 4th. Happy Friday, folks. I hope you are all ready Great America Show midday update for Friday, April 4th. |
| 0:54.4 | Happy Friday, folks. I hope you are all ready for the weekend. As am I. Job expectation |
| 0:59.6 | numbers are out. 228,000 added for the month of March as the Trump economy defies its critics, folks. |
| 1:08.0 | Employers in the United States added those 228,000 jobs for their payrolls for the month |
| 1:11.7 | of March, according to the Department of Labor Statistics, and the employment rate inched up to 4.2%. |
| 1:17.7 | Now, the big picture of this, economists had been expecting just 140,000 jobs added in March. |
| 1:24.6 | The climb the unemployment rate was expected. The private sector hiring was |
| 1:28.5 | much stronger than expected. Economists had expected a forecast of 115,000 jobs. Businesses added |
| 1:34.6 | 209,000. Now, the workforce participation rate climbed from 62% to 63% the average workweek |
| 1:42.3 | lengthened, a sign of increased demand for labor. |
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