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You're not broken. The job market is. | It's Been A Minute
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23:57Now PlayingJob seekers are sending out hundreds of applications. Here’s why they’re not hearing back.
The unemployment rate has been climbing over the past few years, but historically, it isn’t that high… Even so, some people have been talking about having a really, really rough time finding work. Brittany is joined by Wailin Wong () , cohost of NPR’s Indicator podcast, and Nitish Pahwa () , staff writer for business and tech at Slate, to get into why the decent macroeconomic numbers aren’t adding up for job seekers and why the market might be stuck in an “AI doom loop.”
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