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Why the recent unemployment numbers matter

The Labor Department released another disappointing jobs report this past week. A month ago, a government number cruncher got fired for that. How much faith should be put in the government's economic data?

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Scott Horsley is NPR's Chief Economics Correspondent. He reports on ups and downs in the national economy as well as fault lines between booming and busting communities.
Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
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