There's a lot to like in the latest jobs report, unless you're on Wall Street, I guess.

From American public media, this is Marketplace.

From Baltimore, I'm Amy Scott in for Kai Rizdal, who is on assignment in China, covering

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's visit, more from him later in the program.

It's Friday, July 7th.

Good to have you with us.

The U.S. economy is still creating jobs, though at a slower pace.

That's the big takeaway from today's employment situation report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor

Statistics.

Jobs outside of Farm and Group by 209,000 in June.

That's the slowest pace since late 2020.

It turns out that job growth in April and May was slower than initially estimated by

a combined 110,000 jobs.

Joining me to make sense of these numbers are Heather Long at The Washington Post and

Soudie Breddy at Politico.

Good to have you both here.

Hi, Amy.

Hi.

Heather, starting with you, what's your initial response to this report today?

How about a B-plus report in a sense that there's a little something for everybody here.

If you're a job seeker, look, things slow down a little bit, but there's still a lot of

jobs out there, a lot of hiring going on, particularly in government, healthcare, social assistance,

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