Can air traffic controllers keep calm and carry on — without pay?

空中交通管制员是否能在无报酬的情况下保持冷静,继续工作?

The Indicator from Planet Money

2025-11-07

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There’s one job that gets all the attention during a government shutdown: air traffic controllers. Today on the show, we spotlight why this job has taken on outsize political influence and one controller’s experience during the longest shutdown on record. For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Tyler Jones. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.   Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • NPR.

  • This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

  • I'm Waylon Wong.

  • And joining us for the next three months

  • as co-host is Stephen Besarra from the Gulf States Newsroom.

  • Welcome aboard, Stephen.

  • Yeah, thank you, Waylon.

  • I'm joining you from the new official Indicator Birmingham Studios.

  • Ooh, very exciting.

  • And you're here just in time for Jobs Friday.

  • Yay!

  • And you know,

  • it's another weird one

  • because we should be getting updated numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

  • However,

  • the government shutdown means we are not getting the BLS jobs report for the second month in a row.

  • Instead, we'll look at the numbers from the company's ADP and Reveilleux Labs.

  • ADP says private employers added 42,000 jobs in October.

  • Reveilleux Labs, which also factors in public sector jobs,

  • says the US economy actually lost 9,000 jobs.