Economy Adds 115,000 Jobs in April, Blowing Past Expectations
The federal government lost 9,000 jobs in April. Since October 2024, the federal government has lost 348,000 (11.5%) jobs.
The economy added 115,000 jobs with solid hiring across all sectors, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The unemployment rate remains at 4.3%.
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So-called experts predicted only 55,000 jobs.
Excellent numbers for April:
- Health care: +37,000
- Transportation and warehousing: +30,000
- Retail trade: +22,000
- Social assistance: +17,000
The federal government lost 9,000 jobs in April. Since October 2024, the federal government has lost 348,000 (11.5%) jobs.
The information sector went down 13,000.
Unfortunately, jobs in “mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; construction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; financial activities; professional and business services; leisure and hospitality; and other services” changed little.
You all know I prefer to look at revisions because they usually bring in lower numbers, which weakens supposedly excellent jobs reports.
BLS actually revised the March numbers up by 7,000, from +178,000 to +185,000.
However, BLS subtracted 23,000 jobs from February, reducing the figure from -133,000 to -156,000.
February’s revisions mean “employment in February and March combined is 16,000 lower than previously reported.”
The numbers are great, but until prices fall, especially gas, people won’t be happy.
Stop dilly dallying with Iran, extensions, etc. Iran will never cooperate or work with us.
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Iran is not the main problem. It’s Europe. We need them to put their money where their mouth is and out their mouth on mute when it comes to cutting our legs out due to jealousy and angst.
The whole continent is pretty much lost to whiny leftist globalist mentality.
Iran is boxed in for the moment. They are counting on waiting Trump out at this juncture. They may starve to death, but killing their own people is a small cost to them to hang on to their purpose of exterminating the Jews at some point in the future.
There really has to be some hard nosed killing of the IRGC structure from within.
The information sector numbers… not so great.
This means lack of innovation from all major players along with low IQ belt tightening to play kissy face with wall street.
Hate Disney all you want, the IT around their parks is top tier technology and they have been laying off big time. I know a lot of job lock and stuck wages because the tech job market is absolute crap right now. I don’t think the numbers even begin to show it.
Some of the numbers might reflect innovation and cutting of fat, but mostly it’s low iq belt tightening.
How many of those losses are related to AI becoming much more relevant in the sector?
low IQ belt tightening is needed especially in the usa where the unions protect jobs and not innovation and efficiency and the usps /gov does the same
The belt tightening is not getting rid of low IQ workers. It’s idiot (low IQ) execs who are completely retarded and will fire dozens of random people to meet earnings expectations. Whether they were productive or not is of little consequence- if they weren’t productive- well it’s usually stemming from the fact that the exec has set no direction for their organization.
Intel did this for 25 years- until they had no more talent left to cut. I know that it is EXACTLY what is happening at Disney.
AI’s impact on staffing, is isolated at best. It is increasing productivity and cutting time to perform tasks. Those who say it is causing job loss in tech are the same liars who would blame climate change for job losses
wont argue that ( firing for earnings numbers)
think of all the real jobs numbers if the welfare scammers were not allowed
we have to have our DL updated but they can just continue to collect without any oversight
what a mess we have allowed
maga!
To throw another damper on the payroll report, household employment fell by 226 thousand in the same time period. Expect downward revisions in the payroll numbers for that tine period.
btw pratt just put a 3min video ( or so) destroying karen bsstardo and her love for communism
job numbers would be higher if these dems were not allowed to continue to destroy america
they should leave the fed rate alone..let it go to the market to direct us
I looked back at the household employment data. There has been a decline in household employment in excess of 1 million people from April 25 through April 26. What the heck is going on at the Fed that it has not lowered the Fed funds rate?
IMO, softness in the bond market and falling demand for US treasury debt. Central banks are continuing to decrease the amount of US bonds they hold buying less at auction. Rates are not high on a historical basis, it just feels that way coming off the 15 years of zero to near zero rates after ’08. Frankly I’d argue for much higher rates to flush out the overly inflated asset prices while offering savers and investors an option other than equity markets and real estate for a real rate of return higher than inflation, then in the wake of that cut rates.
Added jobs? These are lies. The household survey says otherwise. Once again we are seeing them play number games. We actually have lost over 300k jobs per month since December and the only gains have been delivery like Walmart and DoorDash. It’s only going to get worse. There is no MAGA.
What would be nice to see is a revision in methodology to report on fulltime jobs as the headline number. That’s the important one. As it stands part time jobs are counted as are multi jobs by the same person, neither of which is a sign of a strong labor market. Even better would be a ‘quality’ of job created so that if Joe/Jane get laid off from their corporate job making $80K + benefits then immediately get two part time minimum wage jobs not only don’t we count that as net increase…which we do now…but also gives a direct comparison of part time jobs lost/created v full-time jobs lost/created in addition to sector.
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