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Feb 2023
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Mass Hiring, Mass Layoffs Create a Jobs ...

The Wall Street Journal
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While many companies hired more than a million workers over the past several months, others have been laying off thousands of employees. WSJ’s Sarah Chaney Cambon joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss the state of the U.S. labor market and what it means for the broader economy. 
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