It’s Jobs Friday, my favorite day of the month!
The jobs report came in at 162,000 new jobs, beating expectations of 53,000. The unemployment rate is still at 4.1%. The data remains unpredictable and noisy, making it hard to predict what is happening in the labor market.
Enjoy your Labor Day; we will be back on Tuesday.
Here are some of our posts that you might have missed this week; today is a great day to catch up on your Decode Econ.
Why should entrepreneurs learn economics?
Yesterday’s podcast shared the conversation that Dr. Jeni Al Bahrani, Sarah Bosse, and I had on this topic. But I wanted to take the time to weave in more entrepreneurship topics and how they relate to economics.
Top 5 Occupations for Self-Employment
The same report I shared yesterday includes Table 1.2. This table reports occupations, the ratio of self-employed workers, median wages, and educational needs for each occupation. Below are the top 5 occupations with the highest reported rates of self-employment.
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