0:01

The day. Will come when

0:03

we can stop talking

0:05

about the Labor market

0:07

all the time. Today,

0:09

however, is not that

0:11

they're from American public

0:13

media. This is market

0:15

live. In.

0:24

Los Angeles I'm car is dollar

0:26

it is today today the fourth

0:28

of June. he was always to

0:30

have you along. Everybody there were

0:32

as of the last business day

0:35

in April of this year, Eight

0:37

million and fifty Nine thousand job

0:39

openings in this economy. That.

0:41

Is roughly the same number of job

0:43

openings in this economy know there are

0:45

on the last business day in March

0:47

of this year and is another sign

0:49

that the American labor market has finally

0:51

gotten a clue. But what the Federal

0:53

Reserve's drawn to do numbers came to

0:55

a courtesy of the Bureau of Labor

0:57

Statistics this morning. The job openings and that

0:59

labour turnover survey jolts it's called. We

1:01

learned employers were hiring in April at

1:03

exactly the same rate as they were

1:05

in March. The rate of layoffs and

1:07

people quitting where the same month over

1:09

month as well. That comes

1:11

as you know after a couple of years

1:13

when companies were scrambling to hire people and

1:15

brought on a wave of new workers. And

1:18

it could be a sign that those companies

1:20

are returning to more of a regular diet.

1:22

Marketplace. Is Stephanie use extends the

1:24

metaphor. In. Twenty twenty One

1:27

and twenty two? unclear as we're

1:29

hungry for workers, so they gobble

1:31

them up. There. Were stopping themselves

1:33

for double trouble table by grabbing stuff

1:35

off each other's blades. Guy. Burger

1:37

as Director of Economic Research. The Burning

1:39

Glass Institute and players hired workers as

1:42

if they'd never get another bite again.

1:44

Now the hiring rate has come down

1:46

and is holding steady and players aren't

1:49

laying where people off. instead they may

1:51

be digesting. Workers now, so to speak,

1:53

They. Are just ramping up. The.

1:55

Workforce. They really lead on Like I'm gonna

1:57

hold onto these people grow them for their

1:59

the ah potential. Also. It's good

2:02

to remember that employers usually aren't as

2:04

ravenous as they were earlier this decade.

2:06

Ethan. Striby is a professor of economics

2:08

at Carleton College. Where we have

2:10

been has been so like ridiculously unprecedented

2:12

that and depicts weren't getting back to

2:15

normal. I'd be like what is going

2:17

apartments. Striby. Says this report

2:19

is a sign the economy is coming back

2:21

to merely a very. Good job market as

2:23

opposed to a once in a lifetime one. And

2:26

really appalling. chief economist at Zip Recruiter

2:28

says there are upsides to workers staying

2:30

in one place longer. You. May

2:32

build up more from

2:35

specific and industry specific

2:37

knowledge. They. Can be downsides to

2:39

public points out that in countries where

2:41

there's very little turn over, the economy's

2:43

tend to be less dynamic. What

2:45

we want to avoid is a labor

2:47

market up, a com of stodgy and

2:50

stale where no one to one stunners

2:52

can't. Park. Says that's not a big

2:54

problem in the Us yet and she expects hiring to

2:56

go up in the. Next few years, Because

2:58

the American workforce is aging now, many

3:01

baby boomers are expected to retire. That

3:03

means when employers want to start gobbling up

3:06

workers again, they may find some earlier options

3:08

are of the menu. I'm

3:10

Stephanie Hughes for Marketplace. Elsewhere

3:12

in the Federal economic bureaucracy, the

3:14

Commerce Department was out there with

3:16

new numbers on April factory orders. How

3:18

much stuff this economy is making up

3:21

seven ten percent from the month before

3:23

where those orders good but not great

3:25

growth third month in a row. In

3:28

fact that factor years have been good

3:30

enough even as construction and consumer spending

3:32

have come in below expectations are to

3:35

boost. Daniel Ackerman took a look at

3:37

how manufacturing does seem to be old,

3:39

not. Something. To keep

3:42

in mind about April's modest uptick in

3:44

factory orders says Mike Montgomery with as

3:46

some tea global market intelligence is that

3:48

it follows a modest downturn late last

3:50

year, which is. And. Combination.

3:53

Sort of going nowhere

3:55

very slowly. But. There were

3:57

some bright spots in today's report demand

3:59

for can. The action and industrial equipment

4:01

was up two percent from the month

4:03

before Net Hill, a professor of Economic

4:06

Development at the Ohio State University, says

4:08

the Federal government has something to do

4:10

with that growth that's going to remain

4:13

strong because the industrial spending that's triggered

4:15

by the Chipset. In the

4:17

other national industrial policies is just

4:20

started going to the ground. And

4:22

other words, we've got factories, building

4:24

factories or at least components that

4:26

will then go into semiconductor and

4:28

battery plants. And when it comes

4:31

to orders for consumer goods surprised

4:33

there was. or the fact that

4:35

lifting year over year. On

4:37

household appliances that is holding a pretty well.

4:40

But there is evidence in April's data

4:42

that a couple years of elevated interest

4:44

rates are slowing some production lines, says

4:46

Matt Collier, an economist at Moody's. If

4:48

you squint enough you can see that

4:50

there is there a softening demand. So

4:52

automobiles, people so buy new cars, but

4:54

not like they were in the height

4:56

of the pandemic when dealers couldn't keep

4:58

cars and a lot. Still, Says

5:01

Collier. As some other economic indicators

5:03

cool off, manufacturers have held up

5:05

free admirably is consumer spending keeps

5:07

declining. That will hurt manufacturers eventually.

5:09

But for now, Collier says Saturdays

5:11

seem to be chugging along and

5:13

Daniel Ackerman for Marketplace on Wall

5:15

Street Day equities that his stocks.

5:17

You know they did their thing

5:19

up little bit. Bond traders like

5:22

what they saw in a softer

5:24

labor market yields rube just little

5:26

bit. We will have the details

5:28

when you do the numbers. The

6:00

Magazine the other day that a

6:02

record two point nine million people

6:04

pass through airport security on the

6:06

Friday of Memorial Day weekend. Demand

6:08

for travel has been and remains

6:11

high as the pandemic received from

6:13

memory. Airline passenger numbers set new

6:15

records last year. also ivo the

6:17

number of passenger complaints to Federal

6:19

regulators. The Department of Transportation finalized

6:21

some new airline customer service rules

6:24

last month because between the long

6:26

lines and cramped quarters and extra

6:28

fees, air travel as begum. Shall.

6:31

We say not Great for lot of people.

6:33

But. As marketplaces Megan Mccarthy Korea reports,

6:35

it was not always that way. Travel.

6:38

And Aviation writer Benet Wilson has been

6:41

obsessed with flying from more than half

6:43

a century as the child of an

6:45

Air force officer see flu when a

6:47

lot of people couldn't In Nineteen seventy

6:50

one her family took Pan Am from

6:52

New York to London where her dad

6:54

with stationed. My mother said us

6:57

in our Sunday best we were little

6:59

have we have our purses and are

7:01

white gloves. She still has

7:03

the ticket her grandmother kept from

7:05

her Transatlantic flight to visit them

7:07

the following year. I. Saved

7:09

it because it reminded.

7:11

Me of a bygone era mean back

7:14

when you're has a nice little tickets

7:16

jackets and it was on that side

7:18

sandy wax paper. I remember that the

7:21

fare was four hundred eighty seven Dollars

7:23

was has a lost money back in

7:25

nineteen seventy two. The equivalent

7:27

of about thirty six hundred dollars

7:30

today at that time. Ten and

7:32

with selling a luxury experience. Chances

7:34

are you've heard about the plane with

7:37

a spiral staircase. And first. Plane

7:40

with a wide isles and the

7:42

three wide screen movies and he

7:45

was ceilings and sinise. Cities to

7:47

the nineteen seventies and regarded as

7:49

flying schools In a says ram

7:51

Simon says written more than thirty

7:53

books. On air travel is a

7:55

see his era as school may

7:58

enjoy. Ama. Really

8:00

Have. Any a cocktail lounge

8:03

with us live Pls uniforms

8:05

off the fashion runways. More

8:08

courage, miniskirts earns a diverse and

8:10

the food that I'm so has

8:13

said at the very name is

8:15

doug. Like roast beef

8:17

carved out your seat and

8:19

served on bone. Sign up

8:21

a level of service, even

8:23

in coats that is unrecognisable

8:25

today. To develop and you're willing

8:27

to sell me and overpriced says which?

8:30

which. I would the Feds

8:32

muddled. Curtis. Bass recently retired

8:34

from a career and human services

8:36

that had him flying almost every

8:38

month something you now trying to

8:41

avoid. Last fall airline delays caused

8:43

him to miss the departure of

8:45

a cruise and cancellations once added

8:47

a day and for extra layovers

8:50

to a trip. He says all

8:52

the airlines offered was more subpar

8:54

sandwiches. I feel like

8:56

I being treated like an

8:59

unwanted commodity. So how

9:01

did air travel fall so

9:03

far in word d says

9:05

Henry Harteveldt and industry analyst.

9:07

During the golden age, the

9:10

government set roots and prices.

9:12

Airlines. Competed on the so

9:15

called soft product the piano

9:17

bars. And mini skirts and

9:19

roast beef. But since deregulation in

9:22

Nineteen seventy Eight, he says airlines

9:24

had competed on price, spinning out

9:26

every amenity as an extra. From

9:29

checked bags to sitting with your

9:31

kids, it's all helped. drive, there's

9:33

down, but hasn't given consumers better

9:36

choices. Says get a Cd rom

9:38

on a law professor at Vanderbilt.

9:41

We. Have less competition now.

9:44

Than we did under the regulated system. In.

9:46

His recent book, Why Flying is

9:49

miserable and How To Fix It

9:51

He argues consolidation has left consumers

9:53

beholden to a few big airlines

9:55

that set the terms. People.

9:57

Think that any change has to be.

10:00

Going back to the seventies and

10:02

that's just wrong. We. Can

10:04

make lots of changes. That would improve our

10:06

system. Without. Going back to

10:08

that. Things. Like mandating bigger

10:10

seats or more predictable placing.

10:13

travel writer Bunny Wilson is

10:15

glad to have her memories.

10:17

At. I actually prefer the industry

10:20

now because more people have access

10:22

to air travel than ever before.

10:24

Armed with snacks, a pillow, and

10:26

noise canceling headphones, she's booked five

10:28

flights for the next few months,

10:30

including a Transatlantic. once. she paid

10:32

just over two thousand dollars for

10:34

all of them. A better deal

10:36

than her grandmother got a One

10:38

trick or Megan Mccarthy reno from

10:41

other place. Answer

11:07

though offices may be as compared

11:09

to the before times, most Americans

11:11

are still commuting to work at

11:13

least some of the time and

11:15

the distances they're traveling between work

11:17

and home or getting longer and

11:19

longer do research out from Stanford

11:21

University finds commute of forty miles

11:23

or more one way or on

11:25

the rise as many workers have

11:27

more flexibility about where they live

11:29

and the share of people traveling

11:31

seventy five miles or more super

11:33

commuters they're called is up a

11:35

third since the start. Of the pandemic

11:37

or to places of Mmr has more on that

11:40

one. I Twenty five between

11:42

Albuquerque and Santa Fe is not where

11:44

you want to be during commuter hours.

11:46

Just ask twenty five year old Sarah.

11:49

Not Caraway. It shifts

11:51

so crowded traffic, backstop,

11:53

wilde drivers. Not. caraway

11:55

lives in albuquerque about one hundred

11:57

miles and two hours from her

12:00

job at Los Alamos National Laboratories.

12:02

She says her super commute isn't ideal.

12:05

It's stressful, it's tiring. But

12:08

it's only three days a week, thanks to a

12:10

hybrid work schedule. And it allows

12:12

her to hold on to more of her paycheck

12:14

and maintain her standard of living. A

12:16

move to pricier Santa Fe could

12:18

mean roommates. Living with

12:20

five other people, it does not sound

12:23

pleasant at all anymore. Most

12:25

super commuters are making this kind

12:27

of a trade-off, says economist Nicholas

12:29

Bloom, who co-authored the Stanford research.

12:32

Do I live in a small apartment? It doesn't work for

12:35

us, but I have a shorter commute. Or

12:37

do I just have two days of driving hell?

12:40

And spend the rest of the week in a home

12:42

that fits your lifestyle. Bloom says

12:44

it's a win for employers. You

12:47

can hire a much more talented and more

12:49

diverse set of employees. With a

12:51

larger recruitment radius. But

12:53

long commutes can also make for

12:55

burnt-out workers. When they're at

12:57

work, they're gonna be tired. It's gonna be harder

12:59

for them to focus. Matt

13:01

Pieschak is a professor of management

13:03

at Wayne State University. He

13:06

says a little transition time between work

13:08

and home comes with some benefits. But

13:11

no one needs two hours in the car for

13:13

that. It's really diminishing

13:15

returns. And most people would

13:17

probably rather use that time in a different

13:19

way. Like going to the gym

13:21

or hanging out with their families. Things

13:24

that help us decompress from work. I'm

13:27

Savannah Marr from Rocket Police. Drivers

13:49

are trained to drive trucks, not smoke e-cargo

13:51

bikes. Bigger is definitely

13:53

not always better. But first,

13:56

let's do the numbers. Down,

13:59

Duster, Up, Up. Forty today that about

14:01

a thirty one percent close to thirty

14:03

eight Thousand Seven Eleven. And as that

14:06

added twenty eight points almost too tense

14:08

present landed at sixteen thousand Eight Fifty

14:10

seven within as existent be five hundred

14:13

to seven point that it's and present

14:15

to and ninety one Bath and Body

14:17

or Drugs twelve point eight percent day

14:19

the retailer person Better than expected first

14:22

quarter earnings and revenue but Fisher disappointing

14:24

second quarter. Lower

14:26

oil prices it energies.chevron solidity

14:28

two percent today. Occidental. Petroleum of

14:31

One and attend. Main

14:33

reason is not some of the challenges

14:36

of Mater Dei Air Travel. Say more

14:38

please. Taking a look at some airlines

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14:42

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14:45

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14:47

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Doll. The Twenty Twenty Four A

16:52

hurricane season such as it can

16:54

be officially designated, is as of

16:56

today four days old. Predictions.

16:59

Are they could be the most active

17:01

on record for the Se and Gulf

17:03

Coast and among the many preparations being

17:05

made are billions of dollars to help

17:08

low income communities become more resilient in

17:10

the face of this kind of extreme

17:12

weather specifically by harnessing solar energy. Houston.

17:15

Where communities have been battered by

17:17

disaster after disaster is getting some

17:19

of those federal grants. And it

17:21

is where Marketplace Elizabeth Travel report

17:23

our store. I first met

17:26

with Regina probably. Johnson in your

17:28

backyard and Ne se in

17:30

on a warm Saturday afternoon

17:32

in early May. I love

17:34

this areas of when he

17:36

announced twenty Years For over

17:38

twenty years in that time

17:40

see seen many natural disasters,

17:42

we've been through a few

17:44

floods. Listen to a lot

17:46

of seems we've been through

17:49

ice storms, had a job,

17:51

is in insurance, She's also president.

17:53

Of. Her local homeowners Association and

17:55

the Neighborhood Point Person. One

17:57

of disaster strikes recently a

17:59

community. Program West Street Recovery

18:01

equipped her was a new shed

18:03

and disaster supplies for grandson. seven

18:06

year old societies. Showed me his

18:08

favorite stuff and the said. I

18:11

had last Lies

18:14

the Lanterns battery.

18:17

Broadway. Johnson's home is part of

18:19

a network of seven community said

18:21

the houses that act of the

18:23

in an emergency. The plan is

18:25

to also add solar panels for

18:28

when power sets off were three.

18:30

Recovery is optimistic. it can scale

18:32

us it's network of hub houses

18:34

if it gets government funding and

18:36

can harness the power of community

18:38

leaders like probably Johnson who knows

18:40

her neighbors needs while. Many

18:43

have had challenges either.

18:45

What repairs on their

18:48

home constant increase? Of

18:51

Payments. Says as many

18:53

of our neighbors can't afford home

18:56

or concert insurers across the country.

18:58

Have bumped up premiums as they

19:00

scramble to cover claims of it,

19:02

more climate related disasters and an

19:04

increase in construction costs she says

19:06

she herself is feeling the pinch

19:08

the summer or home insurance. Payments

19:11

could easily double. I'm

19:13

concerned and I know if I'm concerned.

19:15

And I word some of the homeowners

19:17

that. Do Not Work.

19:20

Then they may not have

19:22

insurance. You know, God Forbid

19:25

there we have another disaster.

19:27

Less. Than a week after that

19:30

Saturday afternoon when we spoke, a

19:32

freak wind storm hit Houston, cutting

19:34

off power to about a million

19:37

residents and businesses. Houston, Texas is

19:39

reeling. After thunderstorms was hurricane

19:41

force winds tore through the

19:43

city, projectile rising totally seven

19:45

people large for use coming

19:47

down homes and buildings destroyed

19:49

the destruction. That was Npr any

19:51

B C. Regina Broadly Johnson hunkered

19:53

down with her husband and son

19:56

in their bathroom when the storm

19:58

hit. All the send the rain. This

20:01

coming down hard on. You

20:04

hear the Hell? And

20:06

then you're the wind. And

20:09

the when are. Quick.

20:13

Strong. Afterwards she went out to

20:15

survey the damage in the neighborhood.

20:17

This whole community they don't have

20:20

like seven hundred forty five on

20:22

on. Know like.

20:25

People just my groceries. Lost

20:28

all their food. Power lines

20:30

down streets flooded. It took a

20:32

toll on a community that live.

20:35

Paycheck to Paycheck. Anaconda

20:37

laws that you have your

20:39

have been so think. Of

20:41

but what they'll do I pay or

20:43

am I gonna pass that bill. Target

20:46

Groceries Amazon pass a bill

20:48

to get gas. To

20:50

use supplies and are hub house

20:52

and the West Street Recovery network

20:54

so she could deliver fans, battery

20:56

powered power banks and small amounts

20:58

of money turn neighbors to buy

21:00

food it was She has exhausting.

21:03

And. You like

21:05

to tears all sam You get

21:07

ready for the next. The

21:10

next one. And with hurricane

21:12

season on the Gulf Coast only

21:14

just beginning, Johnson knows she still

21:16

has a lot of work to

21:18

do in Houston. I'm a list

21:20

that trove of. Department

21:50

of Transportation of the City of

21:52

New York where transportation can be

21:54

challenging even in the best times

21:56

has launched a fleet of each

21:58

cargo bike that fit in bike

22:00

lanes to first supplies and delivers

22:02

around the city without really getting

22:04

stuck in traffic. The hope is

22:06

that package delivery companies will follow

22:08

suit and make the eco friendly

22:10

switch to eat cargo for that

22:12

last mile in America's most densely

22:14

populated city. Just. Rico wrote

22:16

about these new micro mobility devices for

22:19

New York Magazine's Curbed the other day,

22:21

joking the program. Bedside.

22:23

Great beer. Tell me about these things he

22:26

cargo bikes wouldn't for software the a look

22:28

like source so the best way to think

22:30

about them is a bike with a little

22:32

box attached to the back. ah is almost

22:35

feel like you're in a bit of

22:37

of golf cart. ah and these are. You

22:39

know to think that they're proponents argue that

22:41

this is the future of how we're going

22:43

to deliver products around urban areas and and

22:45

beyond. And which point out

22:48

her that you know these little cargo bikes things

22:50

they're not near the cargo bit as new but

22:52

also these are are in close or they can

22:54

be locked in encino secured as a were. Yes

22:57

yeah he Cargo bikes the been around for

22:59

a number of years but I think that

23:01

technology or specifically of the battery southern the

23:04

lithium ion batteries particularly was it's new and

23:06

was really propelled the though because of advent

23:08

of this technology is last couple years. Classic.

23:11

Last Mile problem, right? You don't want

23:13

these big giant rocks on already jammed

23:15

Manhattan streets and this is may be

23:18

the future. Yeah. Exactly. I

23:20

think the city really struggles with handling.

23:22

You know, millions of package is being

23:25

delivered every single day, is trying to

23:27

figure out just how to in of

23:29

congestion, reduce emissions while also keeping the

23:32

streets safe enough for both pedestrians and

23:34

cyclists and and drivers as well. I

23:37

was it should actually in in that safety

23:39

part of this there are so first all

23:41

these things are speed a limited right but

23:43

also they are. They are large, they have

23:45

mass, and if you want to get into

23:47

the physics of it if they hit something

23:49

you know right. Yes, It would.

23:51

It would definitely hurt other kept at sixty

23:53

miles per hour which is a reasonable speed.

23:55

the it's actually been a bit slower than

23:57

the existing that like Citi bike when you

24:00

decently fast but are still it would it

24:02

would hurt of if one of them had

24:04

yeah for sure. So it's

24:06

all well and good that the City Department

24:08

of Transportation's doing these things and you know

24:10

government leading the way in all that. but

24:13

you gotta get said acts and everybody else

24:15

on board. Prospects of that the A Think

24:17

yeah I think this is where this is

24:19

where the next couple years are gonna get

24:21

really interesting and mean you have a supply

24:24

chains and is built around putting things into

24:26

trucks, how we've gotten or products the last

24:28

fifty years and now they're going to move

24:30

to a model where you know if this

24:32

technology really does work, you are now had

24:35

completely shifting. That distribution ah of

24:37

of products too. much smaller

24:39

and nimble. Machines. Just

24:41

the change, the way you're charging things if

24:43

the charts means the way are dropping off

24:45

supplies are and also just how you training

24:47

drivers. I mean drivers are trained to drive

24:49

trucks not small a cargo bikes so it's

24:51

it's gonna take some time to lot of

24:53

moving parts. They are quite literally. How.

24:55

Much time job to does not like Manhattan getting

24:58

any less crowded. Yeah. Has no no

25:00

that's for sure I would say you know?

25:02

Oh then the next year to it's it's

25:04

funny since even since I publish that piece

25:06

of noticed as the lumber a cargo bikes

25:08

on the streets especially for grocery stores. But

25:10

I think the larger the big the big

25:12

guys like Amazon Fedex, you parents are gonna

25:14

take a little bit longer. The.

25:17

The push for this is bringing a lot

25:19

of like actual physical changes to the city

25:21

that they want to like. widen the bike

25:23

lanes to make mackerel proper you know, not

25:25

huge traffic lanes. battle proper lanes for bicycles

25:27

as opposed to the skinny ones in New

25:29

York as now right? Yeah, I mean it's

25:31

exactly the way that the city when about

25:33

thirty years ago making truck routes right. I

25:35

think there needs to be a similar process

25:37

for a cargo bikes of regular million the

25:39

sub to this. Mode. Of of getting

25:41

our goods around a bike lanes currently are quite

25:43

narrow, especially given how many people have been cycling

25:46

says that as the pandemic especially and these are

25:48

quite big, so you have to really think about

25:50

how we can sit these on the streets of

25:52

New York City. You drove one

25:54

of these puppies. What's it like? Ah

25:56

ah yeah. was over the fun morning

25:59

says I would. They are define fun

26:01

Job Yeah, have you feel the weight? I

26:03

mean you feel something that is. I think

26:05

once you get the electricity going through the

26:07

through the pedal you can move quite easily

26:10

but it's completely different syntax and a bike

26:12

ah you are just a is a much

26:14

bigger weight than any normal cyclist so something

26:16

of a to get used to. Describe

26:19

and and curbs are far as your answer and

26:21

I I needed some help at some points and

26:23

me to you turn ah but other I got.

26:25

you know, a little bit of a couple heaves

26:27

from the Dnc staffer. They got me going. Chancery

26:31

go right in. Man York magazine's curbed

26:33

about the cargo bike so thanks a

26:35

bunch. Pressure to.thanks so much. As

26:57

final note, on the way out

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