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I'm Luke Fargas.

And I'm Anne Marie Fertoli for the Wall Street Journal.

This is What's News Sunday, the show where we tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news.

We reach out to our colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world.

This week we're getting to the bottom of the current state of the labor market and making sense

of how a hiring boom can coexist with slowing wage growth and the many employment-related concerns that you called in asking about.

All right, let's get right to it.

How strong is the U.S US job market?

Well, just over a week ago, Labor Department non-farm payroll's data showed employers adding a seasonally adjusted

303,000 jobs in March,

significantly more than the 200,000 that economists expected.

The unemployment rate also ticked down slightly to 3.8 percent, a number still close to lows not seen since the late 1960s.

But for the Americans on the hunt for a job, the labor market may not feel as strong.

So far this year, we've reported layoffs at Google Parent Alphabet, Amazon, and UPS.

In February, big hitters like Nike and Morgan Stanley followed suit, and just last month, Chrysler

parent Stolantis, as well as Unilever, announced plans for layoffs too.

So for many of us reading the news it might all feel like mixed

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