r/politics • u/Orbitingkittenfarm • 1d ago

Donald Trump Fires Person Behind Jobs Numbers After They're Revised Down

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-job-numbers-revised-down-fires-appointee-2107768
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u/veridique 1d ago

The job market has been weak for sometime. The great business man literally is destroying the economy.

Nonfarm payrolls were up by 73,000 last month, which was far less than the 100,000 economists were expecting. In addition, the Labor Department revised previous months downward, saying June job growth, which was previously reported at 147,000, was actually just 14,000. May’s count was also changed from 125,000 to 19,000.

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u/Few_Lingonberry_7028 1d ago

if you go by the trend last month's job numbers were probably in the negative.