10 hours 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 hours 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.

10 hours ago - The government had previously reported a loss of 105,000 jobs that month, but new data showed the economy actually shed 173,000 jobs — the worst monthly performances since the pandemic.

(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 hours ago - The government's latest jobs report shows that hiring cooled in December, with employers adding 50,000 jobs, while the nation's unemployment rate ticked down to 4.4%. The economy added roughly 584,000 jobs for all of 2024, down from more than ...

10 hours ago - Economists expected to see 70,000 jobs added in the final month of 2025, and an unemployment rate of 4.5%. The report wraps up a year of a job market marked by a "Great Freeze" in which companies haven't been hiring very much, employees haven't ...

9 hours ago - The employment landscape was more ... months' data, the latest jobs report from the Department of Labor showed. According to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday morning, the U.S. economy added 50,000 jobs in December, ...

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.

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 ...

2 hours ago - The chart, which has been liked nearly 14,000 times by other Truth Social users, showed the economy added 654,000 private-sector jobs since January, and had 181,000 fewer government jobs, figures that were only published by the Labor Department ...

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.

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10 hours ago - Job growth has slowed down significantly after averaging 147,000 workers per month through April of last year, when Trump announced his far-reaching "Liberation Day" tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner.

6 hours 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.

6 hours ago - The December jobs report released Friday showed a much less rosy picture of the jobs market compared to what the president's graphic had implied: The BLS report on Friday showed the U.S.

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.