Kai/Kyle Risdell
speaker
241 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Kai/Kyle Risdell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Companies are looking to hire, he says, because the overall economy is doing OK and there's demand for their products.
And that, he says, is why we're seeing more job openings in industries like construction, transportation and retail.
If openings keep rising and they translate into actual hires, the labor market could break out of the pattern it's been in for a while where companies don't hire much and they're also not firing many people.
That pattern works fine for people who have jobs, but people who lose jobs are having a hard time finding new ones, says Pavlina Chernova, an economist at Bard College.
The number of long-term unemployed people has been slowly climbing, and Chernova says job openings would need to rise a lot faster for more of them to find work.
I'm Henriette for Marketplace.
You know, sometimes amid all the headlines and the data and the analysis, it's good to get an on-the-ground perspective on what's happening out there in the actual economy.
So we called one of our regulars, Philip Rollins.
He owns Offbeat.
That's a record store and a comic book shop in Jackson, Mississippi.
Philip Rollins.
He is a busy, busy guy.
Offbeat is his shop.
It's in Jackson, Mississippi.
If you run a small business, by the way, we do want to hear from you how things are going for you this summer.
Let us know.
Marketplace.org.
Coming up.
They say, look, I feel like I'm crazy.
I feel like I should put on my tinfoil hat when I start talking about this.
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