Hey, everybody, welcome to From the Kitchen Table. I'm Sean Duffy, along with my co-host for the podcast, my partner in life and my wife, Rachel Campos Duffy. Sean, it's great to be back, but I'm telling you, you're on your way to work, and I am cooking in the kitchen right now, which is why you're hearing that sizzling in the background. I don't know if you can. But we both been so busy all day. The only way we can do get the podcast, isn't it?

I know.

And it's like, actually, you're like, I'm not.

I'm cooking. And the kids are about to come home. I'm like, that's great. It'll be very real. We're at the kitchen table. Let's do this thing. Might get loud. It might get a little wild. So listen, our podcast is not an economics podcast, right?

It's not.

We love culture and politics.

So I want to talk, right? It's not. We love culture and politics.

So I want to talk, Rachel, just about what's happened today with some economic news, but this is not an economic story. Okay. But that is some, I'm giving forewarning here. So the jobs numbers came out today for August and there was 142,000 jobs created.

All right.

The estimate or consensus of those who kind of project what the numbers should be,

they thought it would be 161,000. So the number was 20,000 less jobs than what was anticipated.

And again, they revised the last two months, June and July.

But so here's, but here's just a couple other little points, Rachel, that I want to talk about,

because it's talking about something that's broader happening

in the economy.

So what did well and what didn't do well in this last month?

So construction gained 34,000 jobs, healthcare gained 31,000 jobs.

There was a loss, though, in manufacturing of 24,000 jobs.

But manufacturing is losing jobs.

Healthcare is gaining.

Construction is gaining.

Over the last year and a half, manufacturing has lost 130,000 jobs.

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