The economy gained 266K jobs — but they didn’t go to women - a podcast by Marketplace

In a typical month, 266,000 new jobs would be amazing. But April (and the 12 months before that) was not a typical month. Economists expected about a million, the labor market’s still in a deep hole and on balance, we expected women to get some of them. On today’s show we’ll take you behind the numbers, plus a little on Elon Musk’s autopilot problem and another round of our favorite game, Half Full/Half Empty.

• “Tesla says totally self-driving cars likely aren’t happening in 2021” from CNET


• “Five reasons for a self-driving car slowdown” from Marketplace Tech


• Plus this thread by Motherboard’s Edward Ongweso Jr.


• The April jobs report, table A-1


• Our Half Full/Half Empty topics: Vaccine IP, Uber and Lyft backing away from self-driving, Twitter’s tip jar and “House of the Dragon”

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