Why are fewer Americans working the night shift?

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  N.P.R.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Weilin Wang, joined today by Indicator producer Angel Carreras.

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  Welcome, Angel.

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  Weilin, it's so nice to see your face.

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  They've released me from the producer holding cell.

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  Oh, well, we are very happy to have you as co-host.

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  And Angel, you are here to commemorate another edition of Jobs Friday,

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  our monthly look at how workers in the US are doing.

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  We have the latest numbers in the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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  This was a rough month.

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  The economy lost 92,000 jobs in February.

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  The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%.

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  The BLS also revised its jobs data for December and January.

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  These numbers now show that the economy added 69,000 fewer jobs than previously reported.

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  On our show,

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  we follow the jobs market closely because it's really about the people in that market, the workers.

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  We want to know how many people have jobs, what industries they're in and how much they're earning.

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  For this month, we wanted to look at when people are working.

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  Are they bakers who start making the doughnuts at the crack of dawn?

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