Jobs Friday Meets Listener Q&A

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Happy July Jobs Friday! The jobs report for July confirmed that the labor market is slowing down compared to last year — but that doesn't mean it was a bad report. About 164,000 jobs were added in July which, ten years into the economic expansion, is still a reasonably healthy number. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.7%.

Today on The Indicator, our friend of the show Martha Gimbel from the Indeed Hiring Lab summarizes the jobs report and answers some listener questions about the labor market.

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