text:  The heartbeat of the U.S. economy is the job market, and today we learned that heartbeat slowed down a bit last month. Is it just settling into a healthy rhythm, or is there something more worrisome going on? NPR's Scott Horsley joins us now to help us answer that question. Hey, Scott. Hi, Elsa. Okay, so the monthly jobs report is kind of a pulse check on the economy, right? So what is it telling us this time?