Kai/Kyle Risdell

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241 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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Marketplace · Manufacturing boomed in July. Thank all that AI money · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

Great tool.

Thanks for having me.

I think I said this yesterday.

Same, same.

Hiring picked up ever so slightly.

Separations, that's companies laying people off or workers quitting, were pretty much static.

And the number of job openings fell a bit.

Since the beginning of the year, though, the number of job openings has actually been trending up.

Marketplace's Henry Epp explains what that might tell us about where the labor market might be headed.

Ever since President Trump took office again last January, employers have, like all of us, faced a lot of uncertainty.

From tariffs and taxes and war and energy price spikes and changes to immigration.

Aaron Sojourner is a senior economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

All that's made many companies and organizations reluctant to hire.

So they've been kind of frozen like deer in the headlights.

Just like not sure what's coming at them.

Don't want to jump left.

Don't want to jump right.

Just hold still.

But as this year has gone on, some employers have finally decided they need to make a move and bring more people on board.

We see that in the slowly rising number of job openings, says Tuan Nguyen, an economist at RSM.

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