Posted on 12/16/2025 10:49:42 AM PST by Miami Rebel
The U.S. economy added jobs in November as economic uncertainty continued to dampen activity in the labor market.
The Labor Department on Tuesday reported that employers added 64,000 jobs in November, a figure that was above the 50,000 estimate of economists polled by LSEG.
The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6% for November, which was higher than the 4.4% rate expected by economists. The 4.6% unemployment rate is the highest since September 2021.
Job gains in the two prior months in which the employment report was released were both revised lower. Employment in August was revised down by 22,000 from a loss of 4,000 jobs to a loss of 26,000 jobs; while September was revised down by 11,000 jobs from a gain of 119,000 jobs to 108,000 jobs.
Taken together, employment in August and September was 33,000 jobs lower than previously reported. November's jobs report was originally scheduled for release on Dec. 5, but was delayed by the 43-day government shutdown that stretched into November and impacted the Bureau of Labor Statistics' data collection. The shutdown also precluded the release of the October jobs report, though the BLS included some data from that month in the latest release.
Employment in October declined by 105,000 jobs, with the private sector adding 52,000 jobs and the government shedding 157,000 jobs for the month. Federal workers who accepted deferred buyouts earlier in the year, such as those put forward by DOGE, were counted as employed until they were officially recorded as leaving their jobs in October.
BLS was unable to produce an unemployment rate for October.
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the government shedding 157,000 jobs for the month. Federal workers who accepted deferred buyouts earlier in the year, such as those put forward by DOGE, were counted as employed until they were officially recorded as leaving their jobs in October.
That would be quite a few IMO. It also means the government was running with this less people mentally there for quite some time, kind of like a plane running with full flaps.
Deliberate Sabotouge from the Democrats.
government buyouts are showing up. private jobs are eclipsing gov’t jobs as DJT privatizes economy. and, actually, more people are employed than a year ago.
It’s the Trump Administration’s BLS.
Guess we can increase deportations in that case since there are less jobs for illegals to do (that Americans don’t want !)
“private sector added 52,000 jobs; government shed 157,000 jobs”
This should be the headline.
Sub-headline should be the number of immigrant jobs vs number of jobs to citizens. (I favor jobs to immigrants. But we need to know the data to make policy decisions.)
2 job market observations:
1) The HR market has become dominated by recruiters recruiting Indians. Thus a lot of distortion.
2) The HR market seems to have way to many layers of sub-contractors, too many layers of recruiters. It seems very inefficient. Some of that is to intentionally get around H1b, IRS and other regulations. Some of that is that the HR sector is dominated by DEI college grads who aren’t qualified by college for other jobs. They have no concept of efficiency....totally apart from opinions about DEI.
No, I’m talking about the shutdown.
TDS Thread posters are giddy about all of this misdirection.
No the truth shall set you free. Things just not as they seem or claimed.
AI lights blinking we won.
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