Layoffs in January were the highest to start a year since 2009, Challenger says

[JimH52]

What country do you live in? It must not be the US.

Moscow is pretty cold this time of year....

 

[Zincwarrior]

Moscow is pretty cold this time of year....

Beats a trench in Ukraine.

 

[Hafar1014]

But trump will shout that his economy is roaring….like the Lying Felon always does.

The economy is strong and growing. We are in a transition from a government funded economy to a private sector economy. 3 million illegals deported and 300000 useless federal workers fired will bring down employment. Good they are a liability. Jobs will improve as manufacturing increases. GDP Is 4.3%

 

[Zincwarrior]

The economy is strong and growing. We are in a transition from a government funded economy to a private sector economy. 3 million illegals deported and 300000 useless federal workers fired will bring down employment. Good they are a liability. Jobs will improve as manufacturing increases. GDP Is 4.3%

Manufacturing is declining.

 

[sealybobo]

Democrats specialize in creating poverty.

FYI, you assholes caused a shutdown......and now you want to blame Trump for it's results.

But this is typical.

Democrats create a mess and then complain about anyone who rolls up their sleeves and tries to clean it up.

You create poverty and extreme wealth at the same time asshole.

 

[sealybobo]

Government jobs are liability not an asset. Democrats add government jobs based on debt money we dont have. Trumps job numbers will improve this year as manufacturing is increasing. 300000 useless government workers fired and 3 million illegals deported drives down the jobs short term

While Ronald Reagan campaigned on reducing the size of government, federal spending and the national debt grew significantly during his administration, largely driven by a massive military buildup. Despite rhetoric against "big government," federal employment increased and the Department of Veterans Affairs was created.

• Spending Increase: Federal spending more than doubled from $591 billion in 1980 to $1.25 trillion in 1990.
• Military Expansion: Defense spending increased by 50% between 1980 and 1989.
• Deficit and Debt: The national debt rose significantly; for example, from a $284 billion national debt in 1960 to a projected $1 trillion, according to a 1981 YouTube video.
• Mixed Results: While cutting taxes (from 70% to 28% for the top rate), Reagan was unable to cut entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, which continued to grow.

 

[sealybobo]

Democrats specialize in creating poverty.

FYI, you assholes caused a shutdown......and now you want to blame Trump for it's results.

But this is typical.

Democrats create a mess and then complain about anyone who rolls up their sleeves and tries to clean it up.

While cutting taxes (from 70% to 28% for the top rate)

Then the Bush tax breaks

Then the Trump tax breaks

No wonder we're broke. That and Trump's spending.

Republicans cut programs that help the poor and gave tax breaks to the rich. That's reverse Robin Hood.

 

[Hafar1014]

While Ronald Reagan campaigned on reducing the size of government, federal spending and the national debt grew significantly during his administration, largely driven by a massive military buildup. Despite rhetoric against "big government," federal employment increased and the Department of Veterans Affairs was created.

• Spending Increase: Federal spending more than doubled from $591 billion in 1980 to $1.25 trillion in 1990.
• Military Expansion: Defense spending increased by 50% between 1980 and 1989.
• Deficit and Debt: The national debt rose significantly; for example, from a $284 billion national debt in 1960 to a projected $1 trillion, according to a 1981 YouTube video.
• Mixed Results: While cutting taxes (from 70% to 28% for the top rate), Reagan was unable to cut entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, which continued to grow.

Reagan had to rebuild the military after Carter cut it dangerous low levels. What youre doing is cherry picking data. When that was complete Regan gave us 10 years of prosperity after the Carter disaster. Reagan did reduce government with Revenue Sharing and Tefra. He brought down the USSR. Carter was one term failure and he was the cause of the great recession under Bush

 

[sealybobo]

Reagan had to rebuild the military after Carter cut it dangerous low levels. What youre doing is cherry picking data. When that was complete Regan gave us 10 years of prosperity after the Carter disaster. Reagan did reduce government

with Revenue Sharing and Tefra. He brought down the USSR. Carter was one term failure and he was the cause of the great recession under Bush

Blabla. you guys are great spinsters.

America stopped investing in itself. You only see one side of everything. The conservative side. Widen your eyes old man.

2007 we said Our bridges are falling apart (among other things), and its Ronald Reagan’s fault.

A few hours before the bridge collapsed in Minnesota, a news release landed went out. It read:

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) issued 20 full or partial vetoes of tax hikes and spending increases in May, giving taxpayers reason to smile.
Said Krinkie of the 2007 session, “Minnesotans really need to thank Gov. Pawlenty and Rep. Seifert’s House Republicans. These guys stood strong in the face of overwhelming pressure and came through for taxpayers when they really needed them.”

If by “taxpayers” one means “millionaires, billionaires, and corporations,” the news release was accurate. And now its authors have blood on their hands.

After the Republican Great Depression, FDR put this nation back to work, in part by raising taxes on income above $3 to $4 million a year (in today’s dollars) to 91 percent, and corporate taxes to over 50% of profits. The revenue from those income taxes built dams, roads, bridges, sewers, water systems, schools, hospitals, train stations, railways, an interstate highway system, and airports. It educated a generation returning from World War II. It acted as a cap on the rare but occasional obsessively greedy person taking so much out of the economy that it impoverished the rest of us.

But the rich fought back, and won big-time in 1980 when Reagan

The result was devastating. Our government was suddenly so badly awash in red ink that Reagan doubled the tax paid only by people earning less than $40,000/year (FICA), and then began borrowing from the huge surplus this new tax was accumulating in the Social Security Trust Fund. Even with that, Reagan had to borrow more money in his 8 years than the sum total of all presidents from George Washington to Jimmy Carter combined.

In addition to badly throwing the nation into debt, Reagan’s tax cut blew out the ceiling on the accumulation of wealth, leading to a new Gilded Age and the rise of a generation of super-wealthy that hadn’t been seen since the Robber Baron era of the 1890s or the Roaring 20s.

And, most tragically, Reagan’s tax cuts caused America to stop investing in infrastructure.

Roll Back the Reagan Tax Cuts | Common Dreams

Our bridges are falling apart (among other things), and its Ronald Reagan's fault. A few hours before the bridge collapsed in Minnesota, a news release landed (among hundreds) in my email inbox. It was from the right-wing "Heartland Institute" and a Minnesota conservative group calling itself...

www.commondreams.org

 

[Hafar1014]

Blabla. you guys are great spinsters.

America stopped investing in itself. You only see one side of everything. The conservative side. Widen your eyes old man.

2007 we said Our bridges are falling apart (among other things), and its Ronald Reagan’s fault.

A few hours before the bridge collapsed in Minnesota, a news release landed went out. It read:

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) issued 20 full or partial vetoes of tax hikes and spending increases in May, giving taxpayers reason to smile.
Said Krinkie of the 2007 session, “Minnesotans really need to thank Gov. Pawlenty and Rep. Seifert’s House Republicans. These guys stood strong in the face of overwhelming pressure and came through for taxpayers when they really needed them.”

If by “taxpayers” one means “millionaires, billionaires, and corporations,” the news release was accurate. And now its authors have blood on their hands.

After the Republican Great Depression, FDR put this nation back to work, in part by raising taxes on income above $3 to $4 million a year (in today’s dollars) to 91 percent, and corporate taxes to over 50% of profits. The revenue from those income taxes built dams, roads, bridges, sewers, water systems, schools, hospitals, train stations, railways, an interstate highway system, and airports. It educated a generation returning from World War II. It acted as a cap on the rare but occasional obsessively greedy person taking so much out of the economy that it impoverished the rest of us.

But the rich fought back, and won big-time in 1980 when Reagan

The result was devastating. Our government was suddenly so badly awash in red ink that Reagan doubled the tax paid only by people earning less than $40,000/year (FICA), and then began borrowing from the huge surplus this new tax was accumulating in the Social Security Trust Fund. Even with that, Reagan had to borrow more money in his 8 years than the sum total of all presidents from George Washington to Jimmy Carter combined.

In addition to badly throwing the nation into debt, Reagan’s tax cut blew out the ceiling on the accumulation of wealth, leading to a new Gilded Age and the rise of a generation of super-wealthy that hadn’t been seen since the Robber Baron era of the 1890s or the Roaring 20s.

And, most tragically, Reagan’s tax cuts caused America to stop investing in infrastructure.

Roll Back the Reagan Tax Cuts | Common Dreams

Our bridges are falling apart (among other things), and its Ronald Reagan's fault. A few hours before the bridge collapsed in Minnesota, a news release landed (among hundreds) in my email inbox. It was from the right-wing "Heartland Institute" and a Minnesota conservative group calling itself...

www.commondreams.org

Carter and Biden both wrecked the economy. Reagan and Trump reversed the damage with conservsative policies.
Tax cuts regulation cuts reliable energy policies and less government. See a pattern yet. More government and everything costs more and life gets worse.
Less government and life gets better.
Democrat propaganda is making a fool out of you. Reagan and Trump forced democrats to face the failure of their beliefs and they cant take it. Today democrats incite chaos. Re Carter they just revise history.

 

[sealybobo]

Carter and Biden both wrecked the economy. Reagan and Trump reversed the damage with conservsative policies.
Tax cuts regulation cuts reliable energy policies and less government. See a pattern yet. More government and everything costs more and life gets worse.
Less government and life gets better.
Democrat propaganda is making a fool out of you. Reagan and Trump forced democrats to face the failure of their beliefs and they cant take it. Today democrats incite chaos. Re Carter they just revise history.

Roll back the Trump tax breaks, the Bush tax breaks and the Reagan tax breaks and guess what? The rich will be just fine.

You've seen the numbers. Since Reagan, CEO pay went up 1322% and workers only 18%. Jack Welch of GE and Corporations along with Reagan's help would break the unions. The high paid blue collar workers you pretend to care about. Jack realized he could make more loaning you money so you can buy a washing machine than he can selling you a washing machine. So our collective debt went up how much since Reagan? Don't blame Clinton. Clinton at least those were good years. The Bush Book ends sucked.

"I think Bill Clinton was a great president,’" Trump said in the interview that was conducted shortly after the 2008 presidential election on NY1's "Inside City Hall" program.

"You know, you look at the country then. The economy was doing great. Look at what happened during the Clinton years. I mean we had no war, the economy was doing great, everybody was happy. A lot of people hated him because they were jealous as hell,’" Trump said.

He's talking about you. You were jealous of Bill.

 

[schmidlap]

What it says on the tin. Layoffs in January are at the highest level since 2009. Layoffs are up 205% from December 2025.



Layoffs in January were the highest to start a year since 2009, Challenger says

Layoffs in January were the highest to start a year since 2009, Challenger says

With the recent narrative centering on a no-hire, no-fire labor market, the data suggests that the layoff part of the equation could be stepping up.

www.cnbc.com

Key Points

U.S. employers announced 108,435 layoffs for the month, up 118% from the same period a year ago and 205% from December 2025. The total marked the highest for any January since 2009.

At the same time, companies announced just 5,306 new hires, also the lowest January since 2009, which is when Challenger, Gray & Christmas began tracking such data.

Layoff plans hit their highest January total since the global financial crisis while hiring intentions reached their lowest since the same period, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday.

U.S. employers announced 108,435 layoffs for the month, up 118% from the same period a year ago and 205% from December 2025. The total marked the highest for any January since 2009, while the economy was in the final months of its steepest downturn since the Great Depression.

At the same time, companies announced just 5,306 new hires, also the lowest January since 2009, which is when Challenger began tracking such data. The crisis recession officially ended in March 2009.

With the recent narrative centering on a no-hire no-fire labor market, the Challenger data suggests that the layoff part of the equation could be stepping up.

“Generally, we see a high number of job cuts in the first quarter, but this is a high total for January,” said Andy Challenger, workplace expert and chief revenue officer for the firm. “It means most of these plans were set at the end of 2025, signaling employers are less-than-optimistic about the outlook for 2026.”

To be sure, if employers are stepping up plans to furlough workers, it isn’t showing up in official government data.

Initial jobless claims for the week ended Jan. 24 totaled just 209,000, with the longer-term trend running near its lowest level in two years.

However, some high-profile layoff announcements have countered that trend. Amazon, UPS and Dow Inc. recently have announced sizeable job cuts. Indeed, transportation had the highest level from a sector standpoint in January, due largely to plans from UPS to cut more than 30,000 workers. Technology was second on the back of Amazon’s announcement to shed 16,000 mostly corporate-level jobs.

Planned hiring dropped 13% from January 2025 and was off 49% from December.

Most Americans recognize that Trump's economy stinks bigly.
55.9% DISAPPROVE 40.7% APPROVE

President Trump Approval - Economy | RealClearPolling

President Trump Approval - Economy | RealClearPolling

www.realclearpolling.com

That enrages his lickspittles.

 

[schmidlap]

Carter and Biden both wrecked the economy. Reagan and Trump reversed the damage with conservsative policies.
Tax cuts regulation cuts reliable energy policies and less government. See a pattern yet. More government and everything costs more and life gets worse.
Less government and life gets better.
Democrat propaganda is making a fool out of you. Reagan and Trump forced democrats to face the failure of their beliefs and they cant take it. Today democrats incite chaos. Re Carter they just revise history.

Spewing your hyper-partisan bile in attempted diversions to yesteryear does not alter the fact that most Americans now agree that Trump's economy stinks.

 

[Rawley]

Clinton was right. Since the end of the cold war Democratic presidents have added 50 million jobs to the economy

How many were government jobs and how many were rehires (ala Biden)?

 

[JimH52]

Spewing your hyper-partisan bile in attempted diversions to yesteryear does not alter the fact that most Americans now agree that Trump's economy stinks.

It is going to get worse.

 

[Hafar1014]

Spewing your hyper-partisan bile in attempted diversions to yesteryear does not alter the fact that most Americans now agree that Trump's economy stinks.

Its better than Bidens by a long shot wait till the tax cuts kick in

 

[schmidlap]

Its better than Biden, by a long shot wait till the tax cuts kick in

Fleeing to the past (Biden, Hoover, Harding, Coolidge, whomever) does not elude the reality that most Americans, by a large margin, acknowledge that Trump's economy stinks.

If you insist on a Biden comparison:

Majority say economy worse off under Trump than Biden

Majority say economy worse off under Trump than Biden

New poll finds shift in voter assessments of presidential performance and economic stewardship heading into the 2026 midterms.

www.newsweek.com

 

[JimH52]

Fleeing to the past (Biden, Hoover, Harding, Coolidge, whomever) does not elude the reality that most Americans, by a large margin, acknowledge that Trump's economy stinks.

If you insist on a Biden comparison:

Majority say economy worse off under Trump than Biden

Majority say economy worse off under Trump than Biden

New poll finds shift in voter assessments of presidential performance and economic stewardship heading into the 2026 midterms.

www.newsweek.com

trump screws up everything he touches.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

This economy shows all the signs of entering a period of stagflation.

Not good.

 

[mudwhistle]

While cutting taxes (from 70% to 28% for the top rate)

Then the Bush tax breaks

Then the Trump tax breaks

No wonder we're broke. That and Trump's spending.

Republicans cut programs that help the poor and gave tax breaks to the rich. That's reverse Robin Hood.

You're full of crap.

The reason we're broke is because you Democrats cheat during elections, flood the country with illegals who take our jobs, and the POS criminals you vote into office raise taxes and create government regulations designed to secretly raise the price of everything we buy. Food, goods, energy costs skyrocketing, the war on fossil-fuels was just a fraud designed to raise the costs of everything because of out of control Diesel and Gasoline prices.