2025-07-03
9 分钟NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Adrian Ma.
And I'm Darren Woods.
And it is Jobs Thursday.
That is right, Jobs Thursday for the, I think the first time, right?
The first Jobs Thursday I've been involved with, for sure.
Yeah,
in maybe several years
because our typical Jobs Friday episode falls on the July 4th holiday.
So we're bringing you our look at the labor market just a day early.
Today we learned that the U.S. economy added 147,000 jobs in June.
The unemployment rate decreased a little to 4.1%.
It's a solid report.
And it comes right as House representatives are voting on the big bill that will give a huge funding boost to immigration enforcement.
The Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants might be the most profound change in the American labor market right now.
So for today's show, we are profiling three industries,
areas that employ large shares of people from abroad,
agriculture, construction and long-term care.
Our question, are immigrants showing up for work?
When you bite into your summer cherries, they might have been picked by Gloria.