NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Adrian Ma.
And I'm Darren Woods.
And it is Jobs Friday!
The latest jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show us that 177,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in April.
The big drivers were hiring and health care, transport, and warehousing.
The unemployment rate stayed the same at 4.2%.
But given all the federal spending cuts we've covered on the show recently,
we wanted to zoom in on one profession in particular, scientists.
Yes, the slashed NIH funding and government layoffs are pushing some scientists abroad.
The job's website, Nature Careers,
saw a 32% increase in U.S.-based scientists applying for jobs elsewhere in the first three months of this year.
Today on the show, stories from the brain drain,
how a Hollywood entomologist is reconsidering America,
and the Canadian who's seeing an opportunity to attract world-leading health scientists over the border.
Armando Rosario Lebron has been into bugs ever since he was a kid in Puerto Rico.
Spending a lot of time in the rainforest will do that to you, I think.
It's one of those things where it's the closest thing to studying like a little alien sometimes.
It's just a joy.
Aw, little Armando.