Posted on 02/11/2026 7:07:19 AM PST by lasereye
The economy added 130,000 jobs in January — far more than economists had anticipated — while the unemployment rate edged down slightly to 4.3%, Labor Department data released Wednesday showed.
Still, according to updated 2025 numbers, the job market also added a paltry 181,000 jobs for the entirety of last year, revised down from the earlier-reported growth of 584,000 jobs — the slowest pace of job growth outside recession since 2003.
The releases come after private data released last week indicated the labor market remained bruising in January for out-of-work Americans, with little in the way of new jobs. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had estimated a median gain of about 65,000 jobs in January’s official report, though their projections varied widely.
The government’s monthly employment situation report, which includes both the unemployment rate and payroll growth, was meant to be published last Friday before it was delayed by the brief partial government shutdown. That left market-watchers and economists waiting a few extra days for what Bank of America Global Research dubbed the “Super Bowl of jobs reports” and economist Michael Madowitz of the Roosevelt Institute called #ConspiracyTheoryJobsday, since January's report includes standard revisions to the Labor Department’s data to account for unemployment insurance tax records and other adjustments.
Those revisions showed that, for the 12 months ending in March 2025, the economy gained 898,000 fewer jobs than anticipated on a seasonally adjusted basis — though that was an improvement from the preliminary estimate released in September of 911,000 fewer jobs.
Ahead of this week's batch of jobs data, Trump administration officials had been publicly working to temper expectations, saying less job growth is natural amid a drop in the labor force due to stricter immigration policies and productivity gains.
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LOL! The newest campaign on the left is to “crash the economy” by stop working, not buying anything, and basically stop consuming.
That worked real well, didn’t it.
I hadn't heard about that.
Related: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4366418/posts (Different article and different source, so not a duplicate. Just related.)
Unexpectedly!!
This one was posted within a few minutes of the other thread.
Ooops. Same source but different article so again not a duplicate.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.html
The best part...
“...In January, federal government employment continued to decline (-34,000) as some federal employees who accepted a deferred resignation offer in 2025 came off federal payrolls. Since reaching a peak in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 327,000, or 10.9 percent....”
That’s a great start!
Yup. But articles - while covering most of the same stuff - are a bit different. I linked to my post up thread.
That’s because no one besides the fruit loops are paying attention to them any more.
Higher than expected is good news.
Especially when it comes to my reply #8...
Lib Article yesterday said Trump was going to spin the low job numbers by saying deportations were the reason.
To the extent that the people being deported had jobs it probably would slow the economy for a while. They were spending money. That effect would eventually go away as their former employers hire replacements.
If we had these numbers under a Democrat...there would be trumpets blaring and white doves flying.
In the latest grassroots uprising against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics, a boycott is urging consumers to resist top technology companies.Launched by New York University marketing professor Scott Galloway, "Resist and Unsubscribe" calls on consumers to boycott 10 companies − Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook owner Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Netflix, Paramount+, Uber, and X − during February.
"The Trump administration doesn’t respond to outrage," Galloway, a frequent critic of Big Tech, said in a video promoting the boycott. "It responds to economic signals."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/02/02/ice-boycott-amazon-apple-google-netflix/88481842007/
Much of the lemming class of leftists are driven by greed for unearned material wealth. Getting them to voluntarily reduce their material well being is a hard sell.
Net gain with significant government losses is better than just net gain. Net gain with also significant losses in illegals employed would be even better, but I haven’t spotted stats on that breakdown regarding this report.
So true.
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