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Host we are joined by Rebecca Rainey, a b business reporter, a Labor Department reporter for Bloomberg Law and Rebecca Rainey thank you for joining us this morning. Guest thank you soin much for having me. Host we have the jobs numbers on friday with 315,000 jobs added in august, the unemployment percentage, 3. 7 . What is overall the state of the labor market, the job market in the economy especially as we head into an election season here in just over nine weeks . Guest so looking at the top line number we did see unemployment pick up just slightly in august. This may be i a good thing. The reason being is we added more workers to the labor force, more people came off the sidelines interested in participating come searching, actively searching for a job which overall is a good thing. When it comes to the state of the labor force, i think workers have seen considerable gains since the beginning of the pandemic. Keepingg in mind the absolute devastation a lot of people dealt with havin

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