From layoff to relocation
Marketplace Morning Report

From layoff to relocation

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 20266 min
  • Business & money

After being laid off this summer, Montrose Fell felt the pressure to scramble and find a new position. But after a year of funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health, the biomedical industry was flooded with overqualified candidates. So, Fell decided to pursue permanent residency in Canada. “The current scientific climate in the United States was not one where I thought I would thrive in,” they said. We hear more as part of our "Clocked Out" series. But first, we have a preview of the September jobs report. Every story has an economic angle. Want some...

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This morning, we get the federal government's monthly snapshot of the labor market, and some folks who left the federal government because of doge cuts are still trying to find their way. From Marketplace in Washington, I'm Kimberly Adams.

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In just about an hour and a half, we'll get the monthly federal jobs report for September. Earlier this week, private payroll processor ADP released its monthly jobs report. By ADP's count, the private sector added 90,000 jobs in September, which was much better than expected, and more than double the amount of jobs that came in August.

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For more context on ADP's number and what that could signal for today's Big Jobs report, here's Diane Swank, Chief Economist at KPMG. Well, what's important, first of all, is that the ADP report was redesigned so it no longer is a forecast necessarily of what's happening in the official jobs data, but

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