Marketplace Morning Report Stories

The April jobs report is out, revealing the U.S. economy added 211,000 jobs to payrolls and that the unemployment rate dipped to 4.4 percent — the lowest level in a decade. FTN Financial's chief economist Chris Low explains why that unemployment figure is going to be ringing alarm bells at the Fed. Afterwards, we'll look at the potential ramifications of the GOP's health care replacement bill, and then discuss movie theaters' attempts to appeal to younger audiences.

We’ll get the Labor Department’s jobs report for April today. The report for March was dismal — just 98,000 jobs added — though economists think that was a winter-weather-induced aberration. But even if job creation rises this spring and summer, it’ll still be well short of what’s needed to create the kind of supercharged employment […]

It’s high time for students to start thinking about that summer internship — and many should get lucky landing one since internships are up for the first time in years, according to the head of the research division for the National Association of Colleges and Employers. It’s hard to know how many interns work for […]

A couple of factors that may negatively affect the April jobs report: retail-store shuttering and a slowdown in health care hiring. But Diane Swonk from DS Economics argues the economy may actually be chugging along fine, in part due to this simple metric: how our service is behind the counter. Next, we'll look at the details behind a White House executive order on religion that President Trump is expected to sign today. According to the order, tax-exempt religious groups may have more freedom to participate in politics. And finally, we'll talk about the internship market for college students and then examine the asset management industry's problem with diversity.

The real estate site Zillow has launched a new tool aimed at first-time home buyers on realestate.com. It features a calculator that adds up the expenses of owning a home, like property taxes and utilities — the kind of things that new buyers don’t always expect or budget for. It’s designed to help ease the […]