David Brancaccio

That's more than twice what was expected.

Also, the separate survey of households finds the unemployment rate ticking down a sliver, 4.3% now.

But this is also the moment each year when the government does revisions for previous months, and that shows a year that might earn a...

B minus or C plus for hiring.

Economist Julia Coronado is founder of Macro Policy Perspectives.

Morning, Julia.

Good morning.

So first of all, that's nice.

More people getting on payrolls.

We were due for the big yearly revision today, and it looks like all those other months were revised downward.

I get by 862,000 people we thought had jobs didn't.

So how would the Fed process this, do you think, in trying to determine is it time to lower interest rates?

Economist Julia Coronado is also a professor at UT Austin.

Thank you so much.

It's been five years since a winter storm turned off power and heat across a lot of Texas, causing fatalities and billions of dollars in losses.

Marketplace's Elizabeth Troval reports now from Houston on the big investments in energy infrastructure that followed.

In a world where energy prices are so unpredictable, during the huge storms and chill just the other week, natural gas prices soared more than 60%.

What is the right house for the next 100 years?

This old house radio hour and marketplace have a one-hour special on the way called Building Tomorrow.

It's out this weekend on many public radio stations.