Good Thursday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintania with David Faber here at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange, along with Sarah Eisen.

Joining us today from Miami, we'll find out why in a minute ahead of this camp misinterview next hour with Citadel's Ken Griffin.

Coming up this hour, the CEO of $150 billion consulting firm Accenture

joins us on the back of earnings. We'll talk AI, immigration, shares are lower today. Companies

one of the largest petitioners of H-1B visas in the country as well. Shares a Starbucks under

some pressure. Brian Nicol announcing store closures in this billion-dollar restructuring. Get some details

on that strategy shift in a minute. But Sarah, how are things in Miami? Things are great. I'm here at

Florida International University where there's a big announcement coming up this hour with Ken Griffin

and even Moskowitz, who's the head of Success Academy, which is

the biggest charter school in New York, they are bringing it to Miami. Ken Griffin is announcing

a $50 million contribution to Success Academy on top of the millions he has already given.

So we're going to talk about that. It's right in the crosshairs of the New York City mayoral

election. There are politics here to discuss as well, and just the broken education

system in America. But guys, I wanted to start the hour how we always do, reflecting on the economy,

because we got two surprisingly, I would say surprisingly strong numbers on the health of the economy this morning.

Jobless claims Thursday. This is the most real-time update about what businesses are doing

and whether they're firing workers. We're constantly obsessing about the health of the labor

market. Guess what? A really good number here. 218, they actually fell. That was less than

consensus. So we're kind of working through

what happened in Texas a few weeks ago, which saw that sharp rise, as you can see near the

end of the chart, in the Americans filing for jobless claims. That looks like an anomaly, and we are

headed down. So that's a good sign, Carl and David, when you're looking for what businesses are doing with workers, they may not be hiring as much as they were, but they're not firing.

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