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Apr 2025
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US Labor Secretary Talks Jobs Report

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US Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, confirmed just last month, speaks to Bloomberg minutes after learning that nonfarm payrolls rose by 228,000 in March easily beating the estimate of 140,000. She says this won't be the last positive jobs report under President Donald Trump and companies are now investing billions of dollars in the economy. She speaks to Bloomberg's Jonathan Ferro.

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