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Jobs Market Growing, U.S. Unemployment Decreasing

The October jobs report is out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the news continues to be positive overall with the unemployment rate in October at 3.7 percent.

The economy also added 250,000 jobs — that’s a jump from the 134,000 non-farm jobs added in September.

The Show was joined by Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy for the Economic Policy Institute to help us understand what the story is behind all these numbers.

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Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.