Why the New U.S. Job Hot-Spots are in the Sunbelt

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

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P.M. Edition for March 8. U.S. job hot-spots are shifting from the West to the Sunbelt cities like Phoenix and Albuquerque. Workplace reporter Te-Ping Chen explains why. And a preliminary report finds Colorado’s star DNA analyst intentionally manipulated data. Plus, Apple reverses its ban on Fornite-maker Epic Games in the EU. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.0	More probably we are seeing a shift when we're
0:44.5	talking geographic patterns we're also seeing more of a suburban shift to. Plus a
0:48.8	probe finds Colorado's star DNA analyst intentionally manipulated data. It's Friday March 8th. I'm
0:55.4	Anne Marie Fertulli for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM edition of
0:58.9	What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved the world today.
1:03.0	Let's start with the jobs numbers on this jobs Friday. A U.S. hiring boom continued in February, though there are
1:14.6	signs of cooling. The Labor Department said employers added 275,000 jobs,
1:19.0	far surpassing the 198 eight thousand economists had expected
1:23.2	unemployment ticked up a notch to 3.9% and wage growth slowed.
1:27.7	Reporter David Oberty has more details on today's report.
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