Maybe night work isn’t looking so bad
Marketplace All-in-One
Marketplace
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In the most recent Beige Book, the Philadelphia Fed reported a staffing firm said it’s having an easier time filling night and weekend shifts. Could this mean the labor market is loosening up? We’ll talk to some folks around the country who are picking up jobs at odd hours. Also in this episode: rental car agencies pile on fees, China restricts graphite exports, and class barriers break down at … Applebee’s?
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| 0:48.0 | Hey Marketplace listeners, you know around here we like to think you're never too young to learn about the economy and financial basics. |
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| 1:19.0 | What all this messiness in Washington is doing to the rest of the economy. |
| 1:23.0 | Plus, where do you go to make new friends? From American public media, this is Marketplace. |
| 1:37.0 | In Washington, I'm Kimberly Adams in Forkai, Rizdal. It's Friday, October 20th. Good to have you with us. |
| 1:43.0 | Another week, another couple of rounds of drama in the U.S. Congress, the implications of which we'll get to in a moment. |
| 1:50.0 | We also got a slew of other economic indicators this week, plus a speech courtesy of one Jerome Powell. |
| 1:57.0 | So to recap the five days gone by, we have Jordan Holman at the New York Times, Cedip Ready at Politico. Hey you too. |
| 2:04.0 | Hi Kimberly. |
| 2:05.0 | Hi Kimberly. |
| 2:06.0 | Cedip, we are both here in Washington just watching this very interesting activity on the hill of the house is still speakerless has been for a couple weeks now. |
| 2:16.0 | Is this starting to show up elsewhere in the economy? |
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