Wages Up. Inflation Down. Strong Economy? Depends Who You Ask.
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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This episode: Justice reporter Deepa Shivaram, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, and chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Jamie Lynn and Sugar House Utah. |
| 0:03.4 | I just got done dropping off my first and third graders for their last day of school this year. |
| 0:08.0 | This podcast was recorded at 1.06 pm on Thursday, June 15th, 2023. |
| 0:15.4 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but one thing's for sure. |
| 0:18.8 | It's about to get a lot less quiet around here. |
| 0:21.8 | Okay, here's the show and have a great summer! |
| 0:30.0 | This is School's Out for Summer! |
| 0:32.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Deepa Shiverum. |
| 0:36.6 | I cover the Justice Department. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm Mara Laiasson, National Political Correspondent. |
| 0:40.8 | And Chief Economics Correspondence, God Horsley is here. |
| 0:43.8 | Hey Scott. |
| 0:44.8 | Hey, great to be with you. |
| 0:45.8 | Okay, so this month there's been a string of good economic news. |
| 0:50.2 | For one, seemingly against the odds, hundreds of thousands more people got jobs in May. |
| 0:56.2 | And it seems like that's happening across job types, right Scott? |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah, month after month, we keep thinking we're going to see a slowdown in job creation in this country. |
| 1:04.6 | And the job market has just remained really strong. |
| 1:08.4 | Employers added 339,000 jobs in May. |
| 1:12.6 | Even sectors where you'd expect to see a slowdown, like construction, |
| 1:16.4 | given what's happened with interest rates. |
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