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Jul 2023
28m 16s

How to read all the new jobs data coming...

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A lot of people are anxiously waiting for tomorrow’s June jobs report. Especially the Federal Reserve. But today we got a lot of confounding, contradictory indicators moving up and down and all around this tight labor market. We’ll tell you everything you need to know. Plus: A look at the state of the car market, and a conversation with an artist who took a job in the Alberta oil sands to pay off her student debt fast.

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