The United States' job market is showing signs of stress.

A routine preliminary report released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised hiring figures down for 12 months ending in March. The report said the jobs numbers were 911,000 higher than they should have been. This came as the White House is seeking to undermine the BLS, accusing it of manipulating data.

That report followed an August jobs report that showed the first net loss of jobs since the pandemic.

This week, LPM’s Bill Burton spoke with Michael Gritton, the executive director of KentuckianaWorks, about Louisville's job market. This conversation was edited for clarity.

The August jobs report showed not just 22,000 jobs being added last month, but a slight uptick in the unemployment rate to 4.3% nationally. What a

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