Behind the scenes of Jobs Friday
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The monthly jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is used for all kinds of essential economic decisions. From a business determining a place to relocate, all the way to the Federal Reserve setting interest rates — the report's numbers play a crucial role in the American economy. So how exactly are those figures collected?
Today, we speak to someone on the front line of the BLS who makes hundreds of calls a month to help put together the jobs report.
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