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This is the Indicator from Planet Money.

I'm Whalen Wong, joined today by Indicator producer Angel Coreras.

Welcome, Angel!

Waylon, it's so nice to see your face. They've released me from the producer holding cell.

Oh, well, we are very happy to have you as co-host. And Angel, you are here to commemorate another edition of Jobs Friday, our monthly look at how workers in the U.S. are doing.

We have the latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This was a rough month. The economy lost 92,000 jobs in February. The unemployment rate ticked up to

4.4%. The BLS also revised its jobs data for December and January. These numbers now show

that the economy added 69,000 fewer jobs

than previously reported. On our show, we follow the jobs market closely because it's really

about the people in that market, the workers. We want to know how many people have jobs,

what industries they're in, and how much they're earning. For this month, we wanted to look at

when people are working.

Are they bakers who start making the donuts at the crack of dawn? Are they office workers typing

at a cubicle during traditional business hours? Or do they start their work days at 11 p.m. like

John Croyd. He's 26 and he's a welder in the natural gas industry.

I've always been a night owl. So on the weekends, I'd end up staying up till like three or four in the morning.

And I figured if I'm awake, I might as well put my talents to use.

People like John, however, are becoming increasingly rare in the U.S. That's according to new economic research on the decline of night shifts.

Today on the show, why there's a smaller share of workers in the graveyard shift

and what that tells us about the transformation of the American workforce.

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