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Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown
CNBC ^ | September 5, 2025 | Jeff Cox

Posted on 09/05/2025 5:53:05 AM PDT by Miami Rebel

Job creation sputtered in August, adding to recent signs of labor market weakening and likely keeping the Federal Reserve on track for a widely anticipated interest rate cut later this month.

Nonfarm payrolls increased by just 22,000 for the month, while the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for payrolls to rise by 75,000.

The report showed a marked slowdown from the July increase of 79,000, which was revised up by 6,000. Revisions also showed a net loss of 13,000 in June after the prior estimate was lowered by 27,000.

The report was the first since President Donald Trump fired former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of the July jobs report a month ago. The move came after the report showed not just a weak level of job creation but also dramatic reductions in previous months’ totals.

In McEntarfer’s place, the president nominated economist E.J. Antoni, a Trump loyalist from the Heritage Foundation who previously had criticized the BLS numbers as being politically distorted. William Wiatrowski is serving as acting BLS commissioner.

While the pace of hiring was slow, average hourly earnings increased 0.3% for the month, meeting the estimate, though the annual gain of 3.7% was slightly below the forecast for 3.8%. Hiring was held back by a payroll reduction in the federal government, which reported a decline of 15,000.

Health care again led by sectors, adding 31,000 jobs, while social assistance contributed 16,000. Wholesale trade and manufacturing both saw declines of 12,000 on the month.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: 2tdsposterssamenews; jobs; labor; letsblamebiden; letszottdstrolls; somuchtrolling; somuchwinning; tdstrolling; trumpsfault
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To: shelterguy

You’re forgetting that President Trump appointed a new sheriff to correct that.


21 posted on 09/05/2025 6:25:17 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel

and yet equities are up big because of this...I guess easy money is their big driver


22 posted on 09/05/2025 6:31:04 AM PDT by millenial4freedom (Government was supposed to preserve freedom, not serve as a jobs program for delinquents and misfits)
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To: Miami Rebel

Summer blahs. No one hires in Aigist. Let’s see September. Hiring should pick up again


23 posted on 09/05/2025 6:32:03 AM PDT by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: OttawaFreeper

We will see. Elsewhere, Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 7.1%. The highest since 2016.


24 posted on 09/05/2025 6:33:33 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Miami Rebel

Good thing we are deporting more illegal aliens since they won’t have any work to do


25 posted on 09/05/2025 6:36:40 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: mewzilla
""Federal government employment continued to decline in August (-15,000) and is down by 97,000 since reaching a peak in January. “

But since social services hiring is up by a similar that amount, looks like state and local governments may be going on a hiring spree...""

Have Republicans/ Conservatives deluded themselves since WW2? Is the government the economy and the economy is the government?

26 posted on 09/05/2025 6:37:26 AM PDT by buckalfa (More chaos and disruption please.)
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To: Miami Rebel

With 1.5 million illegal aliens leaving the country so far, and leaving the labor market, of course payroll numbers will be depressed.


27 posted on 09/05/2025 7:06:20 AM PDT by Salohcin
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To: Miami Rebel

And it will take time to fix it.


28 posted on 09/05/2025 7:10:51 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Salohcin

We didn’t lose manufacturing payroll due to deportation.


29 posted on 09/05/2025 7:16:02 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel

MORE AUTOMATION.

MORE AI.

WHAT DO THEY THINK WILL HAPPEN???


30 posted on 09/05/2025 7:48:29 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: 1Old Pro

Yep, this is being done on purpose to Trump.

Our OP here is a neverTrumper.


31 posted on 09/05/2025 8:02:47 AM PDT by dforest
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To: central_va

+++😁


32 posted on 09/05/2025 8:04:09 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Miami Rebel

None of the illegals worked in the manufacturing sector?


33 posted on 09/05/2025 8:06:22 AM PDT by Salohcin
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To: Salohcin

I dunno. The BLS report said nothing about it.

But if we were in a robust hiring economy, those jobs would be filled in a flash by documented workers.


34 posted on 09/05/2025 8:18:27 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: OttawaFreeper

An optimistic poster on Free Republic is nearly as rare as the passenger pigeon...


35 posted on 09/05/2025 8:23:35 AM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: Miami Rebel

Good maybe Powell and the Fed wills top playing poltics and cut rates finally

Fed was way too late to raise them under Biden. Now way too late to cut them


36 posted on 09/05/2025 10:57:11 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
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To: Miami Rebel
"The U.S. lost 12,000 manufacturing jobs in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics"

Maybe you should actually read what you are posting. Shameless lying by omission on your part.

37 posted on 09/05/2025 11:01:32 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
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To: Miami Rebel

Maybe you should try being intellectually honest and admit that a small number of lost jobs. Trying to mislead that losing the Manufacturing jobs was a big issue, when it is not, was lying by omission.,


38 posted on 09/05/2025 11:04:09 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
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To: MNJohnnie

Frame the numbers as you wish.


39 posted on 09/05/2025 11:32:23 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel

Duh. It’s the unofficial end of summer. Kids go back to school.

4th quarter normally isn’t a hiring period other than the short term, part time seasonal work.


40 posted on 09/05/2025 11:44:21 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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