The context behind 115,000 new jobs
Marketplace Morning Report
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4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released fresh jobs data for April. Unemployment remained unchanged at 4.3%, and the overall economy added 115,000 new jobs. A warmer-than-average April resulted in strong seasonal hiring, though it may be too early to see drags from war and high gas prices. Then later, we'll check in with the owner of a Virginia tea shop, who — like many small business owners — has been buffeted around by changing tariff policy.
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| 1:06.3 | A hundred and fifteen thousand new jobs. |
| 1:10.5 | From Marketplace, I'm Sabrina Banishore in New York. The economy added 115,000 jobs in April. |
| 1:16.6 | Economists were expecting just 55,000. The unemployment rate stayed the same at 4.3%. So what does |
| 1:22.1 | it all mean? Julia Coronado is here to help us out with that. She's founder of macro policy |
| 1:27.1 | perspectives and a professor at UT Austin. |
| 1:28.9 | Hi, Julia. |
| 1:29.6 | Good morning. |
| 1:31.0 | So this jobs report is from April. |
| 1:33.4 | So it includes a solid month of higher gas prices from the war with Iran. |
| 1:37.3 | Is that showing up at all? |
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