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Music NPR. This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Darym Woods. And I'm Waylon Wong. It is Jobs Tuesday. Yes, Tuesday. The government is still catching up with some delayed data releases after the shutdown. Today we have numbers for November, and they show signs of a cooling labor market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that the U.S. economy added 64,000 jobs in November.

But the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6% from 4.4% in September.

The BLS couldn't calculate a jobless rate number for October because of the shutdown.

One of the areas that did see job growth was healthcare. This is a field that has trended up in the last few years.

But the one big beautiful bill act made some dramatic changes to federal loans for graduate

students, and this could reduce the pipeline of new health care workers, from dental

hygienists to physical therapists.

Today on the show, we explain these changes and how they might play out in the labor market.

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