Wrapping up the 2024 job market

Marketplace

News, Business

4.6 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a wonky year for the labor market. Unemployment is down and inflation has eased. But ask an average American, and they might not feel like everything is peachy keen. In this episode, we asked economists to sum up the complicated year … in a song. Plus, homebuilders worry incoming President Donald Trump’s immigration policy will leave them short-handed, and retail hiring plateaued in November — unusual for the holiday shopping season.

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1:05.4	The American labor market discuss from American public media.
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1:17.8	We will begin.
1:23.2	Citiapretty.
1:24.1	Is it Politico?
1:24.2	Heather Long is at the Washington Post.
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1:27.2	Hi, okay. So, Heather Long, at the Washington Post. Hey, you two. Hi, you, Kai.
1:28.1	So, Heather Long, the jobs report came out today for November. 227,000 new jobs, 4.2% the
1:34.2	unemployment rate. But you are not completely satisfied, shall we say.
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