BLS Jobs report misses, 50,000 new jobs, UE falls to 4.4%

[Johnny2X2X]

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

The devil is in the details. October revised down sharply from -105,000 to -173,000. December revised down from +64,000 to +56,000.

This means over the previous 3 months, the US Economy lost 67,000 jobs. We're losing jobs.

[lapfog_1]

1. don't believe ANY numbers from the government

we probably lost a lot more jobs than that.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. BLS has not changed

Still the same people there. The shill Trump tried to get into the BLS was not confirmed.

When/if they start cooking the books, you'll know because of the mass resignations that will occur there. I do think that time will come, but we will 100% know about it when it does. And the kicker here is I think the media will make some noise about the numbers being fake for a couple months, but then they'll just go back to reporting the numbers like they're still legit and people will forget all about it after a while. I anticipate seeing 5 mile long soup lines while the BLS reports 0.0% unemployment and 800 thousand jobs added per month.

And if/when they cook the books, they won't be so bashful as to make the losses seem smaller, they'll go all the way with incredibly impossible numbers. This is a horrible jobs report, if they were cooking the numbers, no way they'd leave them horrible.

[Johonny]

3. But GDP was 4 percent?

Math not mathing

[Phoenix61]

4. Government spending is part of GDP.

And the current regime is spending like a drunken sailer on liberty.

[edhopper]

8. Military spending

[Scrivener7]

5. I bet we're losing a lot more than that.

[everyonematters]

6. Expected or not, that is a terrible number.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. True. this is a terrible report

This is a worse report than any President Biden had and by a lot. And furthermore, the last 8 months of 2025 were a disaster, job growth of basically nothing.

Biden averaged 336,000 jobs created a month for his 48 months in office. He was cranking out job reports with 300,000 new jobs a month month after month after month with little to no fanfare. Trump just had an 8 month period with about 100,000 jobs total added, not 100,000 jobs a month, but total, as in like 12,000 a month.

He's destroying the country and the economy.

[Norbert]

9. Much of the drop in unemployment is seasonal hiring

January, this will be all but gone.

[Johnny2X2X]

10. Numbers are seasonally adjusted

But I think there's some noise that evens out over time. The 8 months of essentially not adding jobs while the population continues to grow means the UE rate will go back up. We added 1 million jobs less than we needed to add just to keep up with population growth. It will be over 5% by Summer IMO.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Maddowblog-U.S. job market ends a woeful year on another discouraging note

If this is “the greatest economy in the history of our country,” as Donald Trump recently insisted, why has job growth slowed to a 16-year low?

Given how awful the U.S. job numbers were in 2025, the question for Trump and the White House is simple:

If this is “the greatest economy in the history of our country,” as Trump recently insisted, why has job growth slowed to a 16-year low? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-09T13:57:10.387Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/u-s-job-market-ends-a-woeful-year-on-another-discouraging-note

Expectations heading into this week showed projections of about 73,000 new jobs being created in the United States in December. As it turns out, according to the new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the totals fell short of those expectations. CNBC News reported:

The U.S. labor market ended 2025 on a soft note, with job creation in December less than expected, according to a report Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 50,000 for the month, lower than the downwardly revised 56,000 in November and short of the Dow Jones estimate for 73,000. At the same time, the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%, compared to the forecast for 4.5%.

The improved jobless rate offers a small silver lining to an otherwise discouraging report, but even this data point needs context: When Donald Trump took office in January, the unemployment rate was 3.7%. In December, it was 4.4%.

Adding to the discouraging news, the manufacturing sector lost 8,000 jobs in December, extending a downturn that lasted much of the year.

As for the larger context, the latest report shows that the U.S. job market added 584,000 jobs in 2025, which might sound like a decent number until you compare it to recent history. In 2024, for example, a year in the Biden administration during which the incumbent president said the economy was terrible, the economy created more than 2 million jobs. A year earlier, the total was almost 2.6 million......

This obviously isn’t the greatest economy in American history; expecting Americans to be grateful for failure is preposterous; and a year ago, the job market was generating far more jobs with a lower unemployment rate.

The question for the president and his White House team is simple: If Trump has created “the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country,” why has American job growth slowed to a 16-year low?