Ryan Lear on WNYC we'll talk about the U.S. economy now and connected to the presidential election year.

The economy in most elections is issue number one and in case you missed it, the jobs report for March came out on Friday and once again

exceeded economists expectations with a net gain of more than 303,000 jobs so we

have headlines like these from the AP another month of robust US job growth points to continued economic strength from Axios.

The March jobs report was as good as it gets.

Here's why.

And the first reason that they gave

is that unemployment has remained below 4% for 26 months

from NPR.

Construction hiring boomsoms in overall strong jobs report.

The lead line in the Wall Street Journal story was,

the US economy is rapidly adding jobs,

but not in a very inflationary way.

And from ABC, hinting at the political connection,

blockbuster jobs report flexes economic strength,

defying Americans' lukewarm attitudes.

So those are some representative headlines from Friday.

Of course, those lukewarm attitudes tend to be connected to inflation and interest

rates, even as people have jobs get

paid and are spending quite a bit according to stats from the government.

So let's try to figure out what it all means economically and politically with Megan

Kosella, C. NBC correspondent covering the intersection of Wall Street and

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