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eppur_se_muova

(41,672 posts)
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 10:19 AM 22 hrs ago

"We've had zero job growth over the last six months once all these adjustments are factored in"

Speaker on MSNOW, responding to the jobs report. (Ana Cabrera Reports, first half-hour -- I just missed his name)

And this last month was the worst yet !

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riversedge

(80,442 posts)
2. 🚨 BREAKING: The [#Trump] jobs report just dropped and it's ugly.
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:07 AM
21 hrs ago

Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
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🚨 BREAKING: The jobs report just dropped and it’s ugly.

Non-farm payrolls: -92,000 Previous month revised down from 130K to 126K.

Two-month revision: -69,000 jobs.

Unemployment ticked up to 4.4% — highest since November 2025.

Labor force participation crashed to 62.0% — lowest since November 2021.

Before the recovery.

CNBC’s response: “Wow. A big drop.”

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Johnny2X2X

(24,041 posts)
3. LPR crash
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:13 AM
21 hrs ago

We heard about LPR non stop for 8 years under Obama, that's all we heard about on FOX News. Nothing now though, not reported a bit on FOX.

pat_k

(13,136 posts)
4. Makes you wonder what the true bloodbath is.
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:17 AM
21 hrs ago

I have no doubt they have figured out ways to minimize the losses reported-- at least in the monthly report. They no doubt hope that when the massive adjustments down come, people won't be paying attention.

pat_k

(13,136 posts)
5. Deportations are helping to crash employment in construction.
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:29 AM
21 hrs ago

Yank immigrants out of the mix and the jobs that rely on those workers disappear.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/employment-by-industry-monthly-changes.htm

And check out private education and healthcare. And leisure and hospitality.

And, of course, this is a "non-farm" report so agriculture is excluded, so the losses there due to deportations aren't captured.

eppur_se_muova

(41,672 posts)
6. All those people hiding from ICE or languishing in reconcentrado camps could be doing useful work and most ...
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 06:09 PM
14 hrs ago

would certainly rather be. But we've thrown them out of the economy without anything to replace them. After holding them for months or weeks then we throw them out of the country. The economic damage is permanent. The thrill of beating up on poor people is only temporary, even for Steven Miller.

RT Atlanta

(2,714 posts)
7. and it was all negligently (at best) or intentionally done... starting with those effing tariffs....
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 06:24 PM
14 hrs ago

THIS is really what the republicans voted for (to drag us all down) instead of the woman?

We're all now suffering because of those bastards.....

LetMyPeopleVote

(178,495 posts)
8. MaddowBlog-U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February as Trump-era job market continues to suffer
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 09:02 PM
11 hrs ago

The more the president insists the economy is amazing, the more we’re confronted with evidence to the contrary.

Job growth over 14 months of Trump’s second term: 150,000 jobs
The previous 14 months: 1.74 million jobs

Under Biden: 0 months of job losses
Trump’s second term: losses in two of the last three months, three of the last five months, and five of the last nine months.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-06T14:04:46.620Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/u-s-economy-lost-92000-jobs-in-february-as-trump-era-job-market-continues-to-suffer

Expectations heading into this week showed projections of about 50,000 new jobs being created in the United States in February. As it turns out, according to the new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the totals fell far short of those expectations. CNBC reported:

Nonfarm payrolls fell by 92,000 for the month, compared to the estimate for 50,000 and below the downwardly revised January total of 126,000. February marked the third time in the past five months that payrolls declined, following a sharp revision showing a drop of 17,000 in December.

At the same time, the unemployment rate edged higher to 4.4% as jobs declined across key areas.


There is no good news here. In fact, during Joe Biden’s four years in the White House, there wasn’t a single month in which the U.S. economy actually lost jobs. It’s become far more common lately: The economy not only shed jobs in February, it also lost jobs in two of the last three months, three of the last five months and five of the last nine months.

All told, Donald Trump has been in the White House for 14 months, and during that time the cumulative total is 150,000 jobs. Over the 14 months preceding the Republican president’s return to power, the American economy added 1.74 million jobs.....

To contextualize the data, I put together this chart to show month-to-month totals since the 2020 election. The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s.



It remains to be seen whether the president responds to the developments by firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (again).

The question for the White House remains simple: If Trump has created the greatest economy in history, why has American job growth slowed to its lowest pace since the Great Recession?
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