Why moms are leaving their paid jobs

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  NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Tarian Woods.

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  I'm Waylon Wong and it is Jobs Friday.

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  That day of the month when we get fresh data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on how workers are doing.

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  Today's numbers were a little lackluster.

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  They show that the economy added 22,000 jobs in August, which is below expectations.

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  The unemployment rate ticked up just a bit to 4.3%.

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  It's the highest rate in four years.

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  The data suggests that the overall labour market is in this holding pattern.

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  We're not seeing a lot of new jobs, but we're not seeing a big exodus of workers either.

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  Beneath the surface, though, there are groups of people who are leaving the workforce,

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  and one of those groups is mothers.

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  Here in The Indicator, we love hearing from listeners,

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  so we reached out to working moms and we heard from a bunch of you.

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  Today on the show, we hear some of those stories about why they've scaled back their work lives.

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  And an economist explains what the state of working moms tells us about the health of the broader labor market.

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  But, but, we do also like to get into other kinds of stories.

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