Latest job numbers cause fresh economic concern.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that nonfarm payroll employment increased by 22,000 in August, while the unemployment rate rose from 4.2% to 4.3%. The healthcare sector accounted for roughly 31,000 new jobs, but declining employment in the federal government, manufacturing, and professional services offset some of those gains; the BLS also revised June’s employment numbers down by 27,000 and July’s numbers up by 6,000. Separately, on Tuesday, the BLS reported that the U.S. added 911,000 fewer jobs between March 2024 and March 2025 than previously estimated, adding to concerns about the health of the job market.
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| 0:00.0 | from executive producer isaac saul this is tangle good morning good afternoon and good evening and |
| 0:20.7 | welcome to the tangle podcast a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul. Today is Tuesday, September 9th, and we are covering the August jobs report. We're going to share some views from the left and the right. Actually, right before publication of the newsletter and this podcast, we got a breaking news report |
| 0:42.4 | that we're going to have to wrestle with a little bit because, I mean, it doesn't substantially |
| 0:47.3 | change the take or some of the arguments, but it's certainly more context that I think |
| 0:52.2 | is important. |
| 0:55.7 | Before we jump in any of that, though, |
| 0:59.8 | I want to give you a quick heads up that we just published a new video on our YouTube channel last week about whether we can actually fix our primary system. As you might have |
| 1:05.3 | noticed, Congress is increasingly polarized, and the situation just seems to be getting |
| 1:09.3 | worse. People have been asking, |
| 1:11.4 | is there anything we can do to reverse course and reforming our primaries, the process by which |
| 1:15.6 | we select candidates to run for public office is one easy way to change things. Easy in the |
| 1:21.8 | sense that it's simple, not easy in the sense that it's likely or something that we can |
| 1:27.3 | just make happen by snapping our fingers. |
| 1:29.5 | Anyway, in our latest YouTube video, we break down the U.S. primary system explaining how it |
| 1:33.6 | increases political polarization and what some states are doing to make a change. |
| 1:37.6 | You can check out that video by looking up Tangle News on YouTube. |
| 1:42.3 | All right, with that, I'm going to send it over to John for today's main |
| 1:44.8 | pod, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 1:53.2 | Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. Here are your quick hits for today. First up, |
| 1:57.8 | Israel carried out an airstrike targeting Hamas leaders in Doha Qatar. The fate of the |
| 2:02.7 | targets is not yet known. Number two, the Wall Street Journal published an image of a drawing and a letter |
| 2:08.3 | bearing President Donald Trump's signature included in a birthday book given to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. |
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