Amy Scott
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first heard Mar 2026
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On the show today, jobs, housing, and the climate impacts of war.
From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.
In Denver, I'm Amy Scott, in for Kai Risdahl.
It's Thursday, March 19th.
Good to have you with us.
We got another sign today that the U.S.
job market is holding up okay.
The Labor Department said new claims for unemployment benefits dropped more than expected last week.
The number of people filing for the first time fell to 205,000, the lowest level since January.
While one week does not make a trend, it is one more data point to back up the Fed's assessment yesterday that the labor market appears to be pretty stable, even as the economic outlook is uncertain.
Marketplace's Megan McCarty Carino has more.
Weekly jobless claims are one of the first places we'd see signs that recent geopolitical turbulence is destabilizing the labor market.
So far?
Mark Hamrick at Bankrate says it's basically the same low-hire, low-fire environment we've been talking about for months.
A lack of new jobs means it's taking longer for unemployed people to find work, pushing continuing claims higher.
But it looks like most firms are holding on to workers, says Elizabeth Crowfoot, principal economist at Lightcast.
It's a gradual rebalancing of the labor market, not a full-on deterioration.
Which may sound surprising if you've been following the news, says Daniel Zhao, chief economist at Glassdoor.
There have been big layoff announcements from Amazon, Block, UPS, Meta.
some of those cuts might never show up in jobless claims, says Andy Challenger at Challenger Gray and Christmas.
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