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1 day ago | marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Nancy Farghalli |Maria Hollenhorst |Andie Corban

Jun 6, 2025Dwindling options may have kept some potential jobseekers on the sidelines. Plus, Chinese e-commerce companies and West Coast agricultural innovation. Segments From This Episode"Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal talks the most recent jobs report, trade talks, and the trade deficit with Ana Swanson at the New York Times and Heather Long, chief economist of Navy Federal Credit Union. Americans 24 and younger are helping drive the trend. China’s e-commerce sellers are just trying to hang on.

1 day ago | marketplace.org | Nova Safo |Nancy Farghalli |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

Yoshua Bengio, one of the so-called godfathers of AI, wants it to be less human. Plus, a federal judge temporarily blocked a law in Florida that would ban kids under 14 from getting social media accounts. But first, Meta announced an energy deal with one of the country's biggest operators of nuclear reactors. Marketplace’s Nova Safo is joined by Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at the venture capital firm Collab Capital, to break down these tech stories from the week.

2 days ago | marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Nancy Farghalli |Maria Hollenhorst |Andie Corban

Jun 5, 2025Churn goes the labor marketTurnover could be a sign of a healthy economy, but it depends on whether laid-off workers are able to find new jobs. Plus: The cost of decoupling the U.S. economy from China, and more from Kai’s visit to Utah County. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

2 days ago | marketplace.org | David Brancaccio |Meredith Garretson Morbey |Alex Schroeder |Erika Soderstrom

Jun 5, 2025Some trade deficit whiplashThe trade deficit shrank by the most ever recorded in a single month in April after substantial widening in Q1. STR/AFP via Getty Images

2 days ago | marketplace.org | David Brancaccio |Meredith Garretson Morbey

David Brancaccio’s Altadena home was one of 16,000 structures burnt up in the big wildfires in January. In a video we posted as an excellent Army Corps of Engineers crew cleared the ruins, David talked about the unpredictability of the cost per square foot for rebuilding when there is so much demand for labor and materials. It used to be maybe $400 a square foot to build in that area before the fire. Now, some are talking $550, $650 or $750. The higher it goes, the fewer who'll be able to rebuild.