Kai Rizdahl

Tariffs are back on the program today after a short time away.

We'll do jobs as well.

And one more visit to Altadena.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdahl.

It is Wednesday today.

This one is the 7th of January.

Good as always to have you along, everybody.

Hey, don't look now, but come Friday, we're going to get the December jobs report on time, which is nice.

Today, we got some hints as to what it might look like.

The payroll processing company ADP said private sector companies added jobs last month, 41,000 of them.

Not a ton in an economy the size of this one, but...

We'll take it.

Also, jolts came out today.

That is, of course, the job openings and labor turnover survey, which show job openings fell to a more than one year low in November, but layoffs fell as well.

It's more of that low fire, low hire labor market we keep hearing about.

There is, though, something else that's important as well, and it cannot be ignored.

How worried people might be about holding on to their jobs and their income.

Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman starts us off with that one.

Wall Street today, a little bit of a reality check for equities.