US job creation in 2025 slows to weakest since Covid
1d 7h ago by sh.itjust.works/u/HellsBelle in news from www.bbc.com
The number of jobs created in the US grew only modestly in December, as a weak year for the employment market in the world's largest economy drew to a close.
Employers added 50,000 jobs in the final month of 2025, according to Labor Department data, which was fewer than expected. But the unemployment rate dipped to 4.4%.
Job gains last year were the smallest since 2020, when the Covid pandemic led to widespread cuts.
Businesses have been operating in an environment marked by US President Donald Trump's dramatic policy changes, including tariffs, an immigration crackdown and cuts to government spending.
A billion jobs could be added every month but if none, or very few, pay a living wage they may as well not exist.
This has been going on since 2008 they’ll just gaslight everyone and brag about the numbers and how great the shareholders are doing while people become destitute and die at an alarming rate but they won’t report on that. They have made homelessness illegal so now you will be thrown into a for profit prison to work until you die and the right wing propaganda will not report on that. The propaganda machine will spin it as proof of how great dear leader is because homelessness is solved
Has it trickled down yet?
Maybe if we try more tax cuts for the rich?
And who was in charge for both? The Bigly Deal Guy and Serial Rapist, tRump! How coincidental!
There are so many problems in this article.
But the expansion - driven by steady consumer spending and a growth in exports
With a 4.3% increase in GDP and growing exports, the consumer spending should not be steady but increasing.
just 49,000 roles per month in 2025, down from an estimated gain of 168,000 a month the year before.
OK that sounds pretty bad for a job market of around 171 million workers. That's only 1/3‰ And only 600,000 new jobs for the year with an estimated population growth of 1.6 million!
Employers added 50,000 jobs in the final month of 2025
Now this is REALLY bad!! December is normally the highest job creation month of the year due to the holidays.
December being only average, and only a third of the average the previous year, and job creation being only a third the population growth indicates an actually declining economy of workers per capita!
Despite this we know the GDP rose 4.3%, but that is very much inflated by AI which may be a bubble and has signs of trickling out, as major companies have difficulties monetizing AI.
But the unemployment rate dipped to 4.4%.
Unfortunately we also know that many people are currently leaving the job market as people give up on finding a job, so instead they try to create a better work/life balance:
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/08/economy/us-jobs-report-preview-december
I've mentioned this before, but I expect job numbers for January and February to be horrible. And the idea that the Trump is good, will probably be shown to be clearly false.