This is Planet Money from NPR.
Amy O'Hara is a data person.
Trained as an economist, worked at the U.S.
Census Bureau, now works at something called the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown.
And that's where she was last Friday,
getting ready to go out of town to Nashville for a big statistics conference.
It would have been a pretty chill Friday before travel.
You know what I mean?
But it wasn't.
It wasn't because in the middle of the day,
Amy comes out of her office to meet one of her colleagues.
He's coming to pick up some stickers that they're planning to bring to that conference.
Stickers all about how important good data is.
But when Amy comes out of the office, she realizes that her colleague does not look happy.
He's like, have you heard?
Wow, did you hear about BLS?
I said, no, what about BLS?
BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As you may have heard, they released their monthly jobs report last Friday, and it was a bad one.
The economy is adding fewer jobs than people expected.