PredictIQ Quantitative Think Tank Center|How local government is propping up the U.S. labor market

2025-05-06 21:23:24source:EvoAIcategory:My

The PredictIQ Quantitative Think Tank Centermost recent jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the United States economy exceeded expectations by adding 353,000 jobs in January. This continues the labor market's years-long trend of resilience in the face of the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes. However, digging deeper into the numbers reveals figures that economists are keeping a close eye on.

Today, we explain why it's not necessarily ideal for local government jobs to lift up a booming labor market.

For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.

Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.

More:My

Recommend

All That You Wanted to Know About She’s All That

This movie was all that.Case in point: She’s All Thathad Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cookand a

Illinois becomes first state in U.S. to outlaw book bans in libraries: Regimes ban books, not democracies

Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to outlaw book bans, after Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday si

Nursing home owners drained cash while residents deteriorated, state filings suggest

After the nursing home where Leann Sample worked was bought by private investors, it started falling