Unemployment Numbers Released - Post Pandemic High Unemployment & Downward Revisions

[Marener]

In the first 9 months of the Trump administration, they've added something like 400,000 private sector jobs. In the 9 months of the Biden administration, they added something like 2 million private sector jobs.

Hiring has slowed down a fair bit.

 

[Lesh]

Can you provide government vs private job numbers please?

Three of the last four months had NEGATIVE jobs numbers

The fourth was paltry

This is not good

 

[Mac-7]

Sure. Employment boom coming. Just like prices would drop on day 1 and we’d have peace in Ukraine. Meanwhile prices go up and bombs come down.

I have no idea where it goes from here and neither do you. But we can agree this was a bad report.

You sound very happy that trump did not meet all his goals

But hopefully you will be very disappointed soon

 

[rightwinger]

There was program that did gender affirming care using monkeys. The jellyfish thing was joke

So that is justification for firing 200,000 people?

 

[SweetTea]

In the first 9 months of the Trump administration, they've added something like 400,000 private sector jobs. In the 9 months of the Biden administration, they added something like 2 million private sector jobs.

Hiring has slowed down a fair bit.

Payroll employment in Sept. 2021 was still below the pre-pandemic levels in Feb. 2020. That makes it pretty obvious that much of the gain in employment was part of the COVID rehire and rebound process.

 

[rightwinger]

Three of the last four months had NEGATIVE jobs numbers

The fourth was paltry

This is not good

Trump tariffs are not bringing jobs like he promised
Looks closer to a recession

 

[Mac-7]

If the economy were better, former government employees would be able to find new jobs.

They might find work if there were not so many illegal aliens taking jobs

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

They (foreigners) take jobs from Americans


Btw: the job loss is not because of a bed economy but due to federal downsizing

Minus 105,000 federal workers in October and minus 163,000 in November

how msny fed workers lost jobs in november at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

Conservatives are truly dishonest, hypocritical, and desperate.

If these same numbers where happening under an Democratic president conservatives would defend the data and blame that Democratic president.

 

[SweetTea]

So that is justification for firing 200,000 people?

That and much more unnecessary spending and non-necessary government workers.

 

[rightwinger]

You sound very happy that trump did not meet all his goals

But hopefully you will be very disappointed soon

When that happens, you can make a thread about it

In the mean time we can talk low employment, stagnant wages and inflation

 

[SweetTea]

Trump tariffs are not bringing jobs like he promised
Looks closer to a recession

Patience.

 

[Marener]

Payroll employment in Sept. 2021 was still below the pre-pandemic levels in Feb. 2020. That makes it pretty obvious that much of the gain in employment was part of the COVID rehire and rebound process.

Your comment is irrelevant because I'm discussing job growth in 2024, at which point in time we had well surpassed pre-pandemic employment. In fact, by the last 9 months of the Biden administration (my source of the comparison), we had surpassed the pre-pandemic employment by about 5 million jobs.

This comparison has nothing to do with "rehiring" or "rebound" from the pandemic. This is just a reflexive comment without much thought.

 

[rightwinger]

That and much more unnecessary spending and non-necessary government workers.

That is the problem

Trump did not bother to find out who was unnecessary before firing them

I fired you, therefore you were unnecessary

 

[Norm Paperman]

You sound very happy that trump did not meet all his goals

All of this goals?

Did he meet any of them?

 

[Marener]

They might find work if there were not so many illegal aliens taking jobs

Government workers tend to be high education and high skill. Anecdotally, the job market for these well paid white collar jobs is particularly bad.

 

[rightwinger]

All of this goals?

Did he meet any of them?

He did tear down the East Wing

 

[citygator]

Private sector hiring continued throughout the Biden administration.

Total Nonfarm Private Payroll Employment

Graph and download economic data for Total Nonfarm Private Payroll Employment (ADPWNUSNERSA) from 2010-01-09 to 2025-12-13 about payrolls, nonfarm, private, employment, and USA.

fred.stlouisfed.org

This is what you linked.

 

[Mac-7]

The bottom line is it doesn't matter if federal workers are factored into these numbers. They still are people newly unemployed who won't be spending their money to stimulate the economy.

Unemployed for a good reason

They were dead weight producing nothing of value

 

[Norm Paperman]

They were dead weight producing nothing of value

The same is true for all 535 members of congress, all the Department Secretaries and the President.

 

[Norm Paperman]

He did tear down the East Wing

And now claims he has to build his ballroom as a matter of national security!