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Showing Original Post only (View all)Catastrophic BLS Jobs Report, US economy loses 92,000 jobs in February, Unemployment rises to 4.4% [View all]
Last edited Fri Mar 6, 2026, 12:45 PM - Edit history (1)
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_03062026.htmDecember revised down -65K from +48,000 to -17,000. January revised down from 130,000 to 126,000.
These are truly awful jobs numbers. All of 2025 for jobs growth stands at less than 125,000 jobs. 10,000 jobs a month for a whole year is catastrophic.
I'm old enough to remember a month where Biden was expected to add 300,000 jobs in a month and he only added 188,000 and he got hammered in the news for weeks for the "weakening" jobs market. This is 125,000 jobs in a whole year!
This is disaster for workers, the Biden jobs market is what delivered real wage growth for working people, that is wage growth in excess of inflation, that era is gone and you're going to see wages start to fall as employers can be more selective and offer less. If Biden were presiding over these jobs reports, there would be constant calls for him to resign.
This means the economy added just 9,000 jobs over the last 3 months. TRUMP NEEDS TO RESIGN, he has destroyed the economy!
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Catastrophic BLS Jobs Report, US economy loses 92,000 jobs in February, Unemployment rises to 4.4% [View all]
Johnny2X2X
Yesterday
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In any case, every worker knows if they have a job or not, regardless of what stats are reported
Fiendish Thingy
Yesterday
#37
I don't think even FOX Business channel can spin this report positively
Fiendish Thingy
Yesterday
#54
And it NEVER ends. Dems will try to clean up mess. Clinton, Carter last 2 to balance a budget.
617Blue
Yesterday
#14
Every Democratic President has had massive messes to clean up from trickle down nonsense
Johnny2X2X
Yesterday
#19
AI to fix the problem of them not being trillionaires yet? AI will never in any demented mind create jobs. The sole
LiberalArkie
Yesterday
#34
I don't see it mentioned elsewhere on this thread that in addition to the -92,000 jobs in February,
Wiz Imp
Yesterday
#39
I would bet the real numbers are worst and next months revision will be even larger !
kimbutgar
Yesterday
#53
MaddowBlog-U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February as Trump-era job market continues to suffer
LetMyPeopleVote
Yesterday
#66
One Biden day equals one Trmp month in terms of jobs added. 30 TIMES more jobs.
eppur_se_muova
21 hrs ago
#69