Segments From This Episode

• Not much changed in July job market, but cracks are showing in health care sector

  by Samantha Fields

  

  Hiring in health care has helped propel the job market, but that momentum is slowing.

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• Macy's taps Amazon's expertise to chase more revenue from ads

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  Amazon launched its third party ad service in January and Macy’s is the biggest brand yet to sign on.

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• Your favorite TikTok may be a marketing campaign

  by Kai Ryssdal and Iru Ekpunobi

  

  A scripted comedy series on TikTok has racked up over 4 million views. Most viewers don’t know that it’s a marketing campaign.

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• For the first time in nearly a decade, homeownership has declined

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  The number of households that are homeowners in the U.S. has fallen, ever so slightly, by 0.1% year on year. Still, today’s homeownership rate of 65% is par for the course. 

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• The Numbers

  by Kai Ryssdal

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• How did the U.S. get so good at doing data? Historians explain.

  by Sofia Terenzio

  Eric Hilt at Wellesley College, Carola Frydman at Northwestern University, and Tom Stapleford at Norte Dame University tell us how the U.S. become the gold standard for economic data.

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• Why are job gains disappearing?

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  Employers have added an anemic 35,333 jobs per month since May.

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