(ET) Friday, January 9, 2026 Technical ... EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- DECEMBER 2025 Both total nonfarm payroll employment (+50,000) and the unemployment rate (4.4 percent) changed little in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported ...

2 days ago - Average hourly earnings rose 0.3% for the month, in line with the forecast, although the annual increase of 3.8% was 0.2 percentage point higher than expected. The average workweek edged lower to 34.2 hours.

2 days ago - Job growth had stalled. Unemployment was rising. Today’s report won’t put those concerns entirely to rest, but it does suggest that the labor market is still hanging in there, showing decent — albeit slow, and relatively narrow — job growth, and still-low unemployment.

Today’s #JobsReport tells us the economy is decidedly weaker than a year ago: -unemployment rate is 4.4%, up from 4.1% last Dec -payroll employment up 50k; total gain this year only 585k compared to 2.0 million in 2024 -federal employment ...

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little in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment continued to trend · up in food services and drinking places, health care, and social assistance. Retail trade lost jobs.

The institute uses that information to build a monthly snapshot of employment based on the reference period, which is the week including the 12th day of the month, and pay, which includes data across the entire month. National Employment Report · ADP’s job report, which is built on the payroll records of more than 26 million workers, measures month-over-month change in private employment and tracks total private employment as measured during the reference period.

2 days ago - With December’s 50,000 gain, employers added a total of 584,000 jobs in 2025, down from 2.0 million in 2024 and marking the weakest year for employment growth since 2020. ... Friday’s data offers the clearest view of the U.S. labor market ...

2 days ago - WASHINGTON (AP) — In an unusual move, President Donald Trump posted a graph Thursday night on social media that reflected jobs data from December that weren’t supposed to be released until the Labor Department issued the monthly employment report Friday morning at 8:30 a.m.

US job growth totaled 64K in November, compared with a 105K loss in October and market expectations of a 50K increase. Employment rose in health care and construction in November, while federal government continued to lose jobs. In November, health care added 46K jobs and construction 28K jobs.

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2 days ago - Employers added 50,000 jobs to the US labor force last month, capping the weakest year of growth since the pandemic, according to data released from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.

The labor force grew by 470,000 to 171.248 million, lifting the labor force participation rate by 0.1 percentage point to 62.4%. The broader U-6 unemployment rate in the United States, which includes discouraged workers and those working part-time for economic reasons, eased to 8.0% in September ...

2 days ago - Sluggish hiring last month closed out a year of weak employment gains that have frustrated job seekers even as layoffs and unemployment have also been low.

1 month ago - The jobs report has not yet shifted the US markets, which have just opened for trading. Here's where the major indexes started when the opening bell rang on Wall Street: ... For the Federal Reserve, the rise in the unemployment rate last month - to 4.6%, up from 4.4% in September - might be the most notable part of today's report.

2 days ago - The president indicated that private sector payrolls had expanded by 654,000, a total that would have included Friday's jobs count for December.

4 hours ago - The new report showed federal employment fell by 274,000 this past December from a year prior, which Zhao said meant the largest single-year drop since 1946, just after World War II.

2 days ago - View data of the unemployment rate, or the number of people 16 and over actively searching for a job as a percentage of the total labor force.