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I'm Adrian Ma.

I'm Whalen Wong and it is Jobs Friday.

The US economy added 209,000 jobs in June.

The unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 3.6%.

So according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy added 209,000 jobs.

But you know, all jobs are not created equal.

Erica Grochan is former commissioner at the BLS,

which meant she was swimming in tons of data about jobs all the time.

We had account of the number of jobs created any month,

or in any region, or any industry.

Then the next question was always, but are they good jobs?

Erica says this question came from people at all levels of government,

as well as employers and job seekers.

This question has been around, I think, since the time jobs were created.

As long as there have been jobs, people have been saying,

is this a good job or a bad job?

Today on the show, we look at some ways to answer that question.

And what it takes to transform a bad job and do a good job.

It's an extreme makeover labor market addition,

and it's coming up after the break.

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