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The economy this week: New jobs are low, tariffs are up and interest rates hold

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Mary Lovely of the Peterson Institute for International Economics about the state of the US economy and the recent trade deals announced by the Trump administration.

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Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.