Hour 3 (8.25) The official unemployment rate is 4.1%. Another measure says one in four American workers is "functionally unemployed," and it just rose for the fourth month in a row.
8:05 — Chargers, Dodgers, the Travel Store, iHeartRadio Music Festival tickets at axs.com, and the Conway Cruise at conwaycruise.com.
8:20 — Labor Day travel. What's actually still on the table at Disneyland, and the question everybody asks backwards: when do airfares really drop.
8:35 — 24.9% of the American workforce is "functionally unemployed" — jobless, stuck in part-time work they didn't ask for, or earning a poverty wage — against an official rate of 4.1%. Then the warm-water file: a hammerhead filmed off Laguna Beach on Saturday, the first the photographer had seen in Southern California since 2015, and a bad shark bite off Key West. Plus rattlesnake season that started in March and hasn't let up, and Crozier's position on spiders.
8:50 — Two kinds of plumber, and only one of them is licensed and insured. Plumbing Wholesale Outlet. Plus, the extreme heat warning runs through 8 p.m. Friday, with the Inland Empire around 105 and Thursday at the peak.
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