Jobs numbers, immigrants in healthcare, and ... Jesus Christ?
The Indicator from Planet Money
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4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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On today’s episode: Analyzing the new jobs numbers, how letting in more immigrants could reduce elder mortality, and betting on the return of … Jesus Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. |
| 0:02.0 | This is the indicator from Planet Money. |
| 0:14.2 | I'm Waylon Wong here with the astounding Adrian Ma. |
| 0:17.9 | What's up? |
| 0:18.7 | Hi, Adrian! |
| 0:19.7 | And we are joined by the dapper Daryan Woods. |
| 0:22.9 | Thank you. And happy Valentine's Day to you both. In America, I've learned, you can say that to people |
| 0:28.9 | who are not your lovers. And you can also give it to things that are not humans, like |
| 0:34.8 | Indicators are we week! |
| 0:39.2 | On today's episode, |
| 0:41.0 | we do not have flowers for you, |
| 0:42.3 | but we do have... An analysis of new job numbers, |
| 0:44.9 | hot off the griddle. |
| 0:46.3 | A policy that might just save our elders? |
| 0:50.4 | And his only forgotten son returns. |
| 0:59.1 | Or at least, people are betting on that. More on that after the break. |
| 1:12.6 | It's indicators of the week, Adrian Ma, you are first. So my indicator comes from the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report. a few days late because of the partial government shutdown, but, you know, better late than never. And the number is |
| 1:18.6 | 130,000. 130,000 is the number of jobs the BLS estimates were added to the U.S. economy |
| 1:25.7 | in January. So we talked last Friday about what even is a |
| 1:30.2 | strong jobs number in this economy. We were saying, you know, tens of thousands was pretty good |
| 1:35.8 | these days because of the declining growth in the working age population. 130, that sounds pretty |
| 1:43.8 | strong. This is awkward because we just retired the air horn, |
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