Why Americans don't want to move for jobs anymore

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  NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong, and I'm here with friend of the show, Stephen Basaha from the Gulf States Newsroom.

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  Good to be with you, Waylon, and especially happy to be here on Jobs Friday.

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  Yes, it is Jobs Friday, and as you can maybe...

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  I tell from our horn, it is a highly unusual jobs Friday.

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  Yeah, I cannot actually remember when we had a usual jobs Friday.

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  Oof, yes.

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  We are in uncharted waters

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  because the federal government is shut down and a shutdown government means no Friday jobs report.

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  Now, there are at least some other sources of jobs data,

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  less comprehensive than what the Bureau of Labor Statistics produces,

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  of course, but hey, you know, they're actually getting released, so we'll take it.

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  Right?

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  We have the payroll company ADP and Revello Labs, which maintains and sells its own workforce data.

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  Revello's September jobs report said the U.S. economy added about 60,000 jobs.

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  And the company's chief economist says, combine that with numbers from ADP,

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  and the BLS likely would have come in around 38,000 jobs.

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  So still some shaky signs for the job market.

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  Yeah.

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  And the Reveille report also looks at state employment and there's some pretty big differences depending on where you live.

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