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The unemployment rate is at a 17-year low.
Or, maybe not.
Some colleges are finding that students are not eager to enroll in oil and gas majors.
A recent Marketplace-Edison Research Poll found that only 39 percent of gig workers are women.
For every dollar that U.S. men make, women make about 80 cents. Black women make 63 cents for every dollar white men make. Latinas make 54 cents.
Anthropologist Kathryn Clancy studies harassment that occurs among science researchers, and finds it's prevalent and not often reported.
Black women are starting their own businesses at the highest rate of any demographic group, report says.
More than 300,000 jobs were added to the economy last month.
Lots of part-time workers and sideliners point to the need for better wages, employer incentives.
President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs will take effect in two weeks. But it will probably be months before there’s any evidence of how the tariffs will impact the job market. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
