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A rapidly growing number of people in the U.S. work in non-traditional jobs. Uber represents one segment of these people, but a much larger share are temporary employees, freelancers, and contractors who work as janitors, cafeteria workers, payroll officers and more. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Princeton economist Alan Krueger about his research into alternative work arrangements.

March was another month of solid hiring for U.S. employers with payrolls increasing by 215,000. The unemployment rate actually ticked up a notch last month, but that was because all the hiring drew people off of the sidelines and back into the workforce. When that happens the unemployment rate can go up because there are more people looking for work.

It wasn't what Sanders said that got young people's attention — it was what he had on his head.

LA detectives have determined that a knife turned in recently as possible evidence was not the weapon used to kill Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.

For students in the program, "music becomes this vehicle for experiencing and envisioning themselves with lives filled with possibility," says Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop.

Scott Simon talks with Councilmember Dan Garodnick about his support of a bill that would limit the movement of people in costumes in New York City's Times Square.

At the end of the nuclear security summit he hosted, President Obama slammed Donald Trump for Trump's recent comments about nuclear weapons.

For National Poetry Month, All Things Considered asked listeners to tweet poems of their own — including the rhyme that tops this story. The plot thickened when a high school English class jumped in.

Sports columnist John Feinstein talks about his new book, The Legends Club, which follows the rivalry and friendship between three of college basketball's biggest coaches in the '80s.

In their quest for a sixth title, the Tar Heels handily defeated the Orange, 83-66. North Carolina moves on to face Villanova, playing for their second championship, on Monday night.