Who should new grads boo more? AI or remote work?

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  NPR.

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  This is the indicator from Planet Money, also known as the 2026 Ambie Award winning Best Business Podcast.

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  I'm Adrian Ma.

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  I'm Darian Woods.

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  And I'm Waylon Wong.

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  And it is Jobs Friday.

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  It's the day each month where we look at the latest government jobs report

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  and we check in with how American workers are doing.

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  That is right.

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  And according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics,

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  the unemployment rate in May remained at 4.3 percent.

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  So same as the past couple of months.

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  And employers added 172,000 jobs.

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  That's a pretty good number overall.

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  You know, this is the third month in a row that employers have added a decent number of jobs.

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  That's true, but we always like to dig beneath the headline numbers and add some detail to the picture.

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  Computer, enhance.

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  So after the break, we'll explain what is driving job growth right now,

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  whether AI is really to blame for young people struggling to land their first job.

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  And how the unemployment rate for black workers could be a signal of what's to come.

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