{"id":202943,"date":"2025-09-05T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202943\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:09:12","slug":"donald-trump-is-tanking-americas-labor-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202943\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Is Tanking America\u2019s Labor Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDonald Trump<\/a>\u2019s disastrous governance has successfully tanked America\u2019s labor<\/a> market.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe federal government released another weak jobs<\/a> report Friday, after the previous poor jobs report resulted in Trump lashing out and firing<\/a> the Commissioner of Labor Statistics. At the time, Trump baselessly claimed that the \u201cJobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe latest jobs report found that the economy<\/a> only added 22,000 jobs in August, meaning there are more unemployed people than there are jobs. The unemployment rate increased slightly from 4.2 percent to 4.3 percent, the highest figure since 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also revised down the numbers from June to show there was negative job growth for the first time since the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, as Bloomberg editor Joe Weisenthal noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe weak labor market is the culmination of Trump\u2019s impulsive approach to economic policymaking. The president has repeatedly imposed new and shifting tariffs<\/a> on imports from other countries, creating widespread economic uncertainty \u2014 at a time when Americans were already dealing with a brutal post-Covid economy and years of higher prices. (That brutal economy is exactly why<\/a> Trump beat Kamala Harris last year.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor the time being, as the monthly job reports underscore a Trump economy that is far from the golden age that his 2024 campaign had vowed to immediately unleash, a top administration-wide priority on this matter appears to be just blaming others for the Trump\u2019s economy, and hoping that enough of the American public buys it.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone that their office had pre-written different drafts of talking points for their principal: One version would blame BLS prominently for supposedly pumping out bad data; if the jobs report ended up being more positive for Trump, another version would downplay the BLS criticism or nix it entirely.<\/p>\n

\n\tFriday\u2019s monthly jobs report was not positive for the president.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cToday\u2019s disastrous jobs report makes it increasingly clear that President Trump\u2019s economic agenda is wrecking the labor market,\u201d progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said in a statement<\/a>. She added: \u201cThere are now more unemployed people than job openings in the United States for the first time since the pandemic, Trump\u2019s immigration policies are shrinking the workforce, and his chaotic tariffs are slowing down hiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tInstead of immediately lashing out at the government\u2019s statisticians on Friday, Trump took time to once again call<\/a> his Jeffrey Epstein scandal \u201canother Democrat HOAX.\u201d He then quickly pivoted to criticizing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for refusing to lower interest rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJerome \u2018Too Late\u2019 Powell should have lowered rates long ago,\u201d Trump wrote<\/a> on Truth Social. \u201cAs usual, he\u2019s \u2018Too Late!\u2019\u201d (Powell has slow-walked<\/a> talk of lowering interest rates, taking a \u201cwait and see\u201d approach specifically because of Trump\u2019s tariffs.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tJob searching is bleak. Last year, a survey<\/a> found that 36 percent of job listings were fake. Companies post fake listings to look like they are growing and farm data.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are more hits coming. Health insurance premiums are expected to spike<\/a>, and millions of Americans<\/a> will lose their health coverage as a result of Trump\u2019s \u201cBig Beautiful Bill.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHealth care is the only field growing, adding 31,000 jobs \u2014 not exactly a positive given that America\u2019s health care system is both hideously expensive for patients and maddeningly complex.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tManufacturing, on the other hand, lost 12,000 jobs and has lost 78,000 jobs over the year. Trump\u2019s chaotic tariff regime is supposedly intended to boost U.S. manufacturing. Last month the White House took credit<\/a> for a \u201cmanufacturing boom.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe professional and business services sector lost 17,000 jobs, while the government lost 16,000 jobs, amid Trump\u2019s mass firing campaign against federal workers.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump\u2019s mass deportation<\/a> campaign \u2014 his round-ups of undocumented immigrants<\/a> and his efforts to strip other immigrants of their protected status and ability to work in America \u2014 isn\u2019t helping anyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tIt isn\u2019t just that America\u2019s workforce has lost<\/a> an estimated 1.2 million immigrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMike Konczal, the Senior Director of Policy and Research at the Economic Security Project, noted<\/a> Friday that \u201cthe native-born unemployment rate is at the highest levels since the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s disastrous governance has successfully tanked America\u2019s labor market. The federal government released another weak jobs report…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,13045,69,79,6501,420,606,2175,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-202943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-deportation","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-immigrants","13":"tag-jobs","14":"tag-labor","15":"tag-tariffs","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115153034746256191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}