Fishkind Conversations: Delta dashed hopes for latest jobs report

By Nicole Darden Creston

Published October 12, 2021 at 4:23 AM EDT

Hank Fishkind. Photo: Matthew Peddie, WMFE

The latest jobs report is out and it’s not the employment-palooza that many analysts were expecting. Instead, job growth slowed and unemployment claims rose.

Economic analyst Hank Fishkind tells WMFE’s Nicole Darden Creston that while brighter days are ahead…in the very near term, the picture just isn’t pretty.

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Nicole Darden Creston

Nicole came to Central Florida to attend Rollins College and started working for Orlando’s ABC News Radio affiliate shortly after graduation. She joined Central Florida Public Media in 2010. As a field reporter, news anchor and radio show host in the City Beautiful, she has covered everything from local arts to national elections, from extraordinary hurricanes to historic space flights, from the people and procedures of Florida’s justice system to the changing face of the state’s economy.

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