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How Companies Cope (With A Tight Labor Market)

By Stacey Vanek Smith,

Published November 2, 2018 at 1:58 PM MDT

Friday's jobs report tells the story of a healthy labor market — fast jobs growth, fast wage growth, low unemployment.

But we've been fascinated by stories of what else, besides raising wages and salaries, companies have been doing to bid for workers in an increasingly tightening

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Stacey Vanek Smith

Stacey Vanek Smith is the co-host of NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money. She's also a correspondent for Planet Money, where she covers business and economics. In this role, Smith has followed economic stories down the muddy back roads of Oklahoma to buy 100 barrels of oil; she's traveled to Pune, India, to track down the man who pitched the country's dramatic currency devaluation to the prime minister; and she's spoken with a North Korean woman who made a small fortune smuggling artificial sweetener in from China.

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Cardiff Garcia

Cardiff Garcia is a co-host of NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money podcast, along with Stacey Vanek Smith. He joined NPR in November 2017.

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