Weekly Roundup: August 8th

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The unemployment rate dropped to 5.4% in July — a low for the pandemic. Nearly a million new jobs were added to the economy — although restaurants and factories are still hurting for workers. Covid cases continued to rise, too. We take a look at the two ends of the response spectrum: New York City's vaccine mandate and Florida's free-for-all.

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Asma Khalid, chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley, national correspondent Greg Allen, and national correspondent Jasmine Garsd.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Ethan from Muncie, Indiana. It's the day before school gets back into session and I enter my fifth year of teaching US government
0:07.6	It's been a wild ride. You're listening to the NPR politics podcast, which was recorded at it is
0:14.3	1238 Eastern on on Friday, August 6th things may have changed by the time you listen to this podcast
0:20.3	But I'll have a class full of students eager to make this year as normal as possible enjoy the show
0:25.1	Asma an a fellow Indiana I guess because the the time stamp is from Indiana
0:34.5	Thank you you need to correct me. I was trolling you with Indiana and I want the internet to yell at me for saying a
0:40.6	Fellow Hoosier. Thank you for submitting that time stamp
0:44.3	It's so wonderful to hear from my fellow Hoosiers. Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro
0:50.2	I cover the White House. I must my Khaled
0:52.4	I also cover the White House and our old friend Scott Horosley who also used to cover the White House
0:57.8	covers the economy these days is joining us today. Hey Scott great to be with you all and Scott's here because it's a jobs report day
1:05.4	943,000 new jobs in July the
1:08.7	Unemployment rate fell from 5.9% to a pandemic year-old low a
1:14.5	5.4%
1:15.6	Scott Horosley used to be in the White House like us these days you cover the economy and you know now you're you're doing stories from bars and restaurants like
1:26.4	Not a lot of field work although I did spend some time in the craft beer temple we were bicycling across Iowa last week
1:32.3	But you know with the reason we've been paying a lot of attention to bars and restaurants
1:35.1	They were obviously very hard hit during the pandemic and in recent months they have been
1:40.6	Staffing up quickly although not as quickly as a lot of bar and restaurant owners would like
1:46.9	We got news of the July jobs numbers this morning from the Labor Department and once again bars and restaurants were
1:54.6	Near the top of the list they added a
1:57.6	253,000 jobs last month
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