It’s the Midday Newswrap: The Labor Department released the monthly job numbers this morning, and, as has been the case for the last seven or eight years, the numbers continue to be good. The unemployment rate has stayed steady at 3.9%. The economy added 201 thousand jobs in August, and wages grew by .4 percent , up nearly three percent for the year. Analysts have observed that wages are growing at a faster rate than inflation for the first time in a long time.In a now infamous op-ed in the NY Times from a person identified by the Times as a Senior Administration Official, someone claims that she or he is one of many people working behind the scenes to, in this person’s words, “frustrate parts of the Trump agenda, and the President’s “worst inclinations.” Just what parts, just how many people, and who is making this claim are not yet known. Plus, NFL opened its season last night in a broadcast that featured a new Nike commercial narrated by Colin Kaepernick. We’ll talk about Nike’s decision to place Kaepernick front and center in its 30th anniversary ad campaign.Tom is joined in studio by Michael Fletcher, a senior writer with ESPN’s The Undefeated, the online platform that explores the intersection of race, culture and sports; and Ian Samuel, an associate professor of law at Indiana University, and the co-host of a podcast about the Supreme Court, called First Mondays.

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