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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"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 !
gab13by13
(31,947 posts)Kegsbreath says, women need not apply.
riversedge
(80,442 posts)Brian Allen
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🚨 BREAKING: The jobs report just dropped and its 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.
CNBCs response: Wow. A big drop.
Link to tweet
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Johnny2X2X
(24,041 posts)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)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)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)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)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)The more the president insists the economy is amazing, the more were confronted with evidence to the contrary.
Job growth over 14 months of Trumpâs second term: 150,000 jobs
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-06T14:04:46.620Z
The previous 14 months: 1.74 million jobs
Under Biden: 0 months of job losses
Trumpâs 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...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/u-s-economy-lost-92000-jobs-in-february-as-trump-era-job-market-continues-to-suffer
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 Bidens four years in the White House, there wasnt a single month in which the U.S. economy actually lost jobs. Its 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 presidents 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 Bidens presidency, while the red columns point to Trumps.

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?