David Brancaccio

One guy had to go through 30 contractors to find one with the right skills he could afford.

Plus, for most, rebuilding is taking years.

How do people find the money to live elsewhere?

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We just got a lackluster jobs report.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

First, there's news fewer than expected people were hired in the month just ended.

Just 50,000 more were hired and there were major revisions downward to payroll data going back several months.

And watch out for the headlines on the unemployment rate moving down a notch.

Diane Swonk is chief economist at the audit tax and advisory firm KPMG.

Much will be made of the unemployment rate going in the, quote, right direction, ticking down a notch to 4.4 percent.

Did it tick down for the right reasons?

Eighteen high school students from in and around areas hit by the terrible California fires one year ago got a taste of nonfiction storytelling.

It's a youth initiative out of the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication.

The high schoolers gathered oral histories from fire survivors and chronicled their own experiences.

One team asked people from the fire zones about objects lost and objects found.

Some experts here now, starting with Jonathan Gottlieb and his daughter Samara.

Objects lost and objects found in the ashes of the wildfires one year ago.

You heard Samara and Jonathan Gottlieb, Ashley Burkhart, Ninki Dalton-Egley, and Matt Mooney.

These were drawn from a high school reporting initiative out of USC's Annenberg School.