Qualified candidates struggle in a sluggish market due to Trump tariffs, AI screening and vanishing entry-level roles***
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced on Tuesday that the US added 911,000 fewer jobs than first estimated for the year to March 2025, highlighting already heightened concerns about the health of the labor market.
The news followed a lackluster August jobs report, with only 22,000 jobs added in the US. That report noted that 13,000 jobs were lost for the month of June 2025, the first negative jobs report survey since December 2020, the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate increased to 4.3%, the highest rate since 2021.
Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of labor statistics, was fired by Trump after a weak job’s report in July, which the president claimed, without evidence, was “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad”.
You’ve got Democrats holding governments in a dozen big states. You would like to think New York and California and Massachusetts would be able to use their liberal governors to insulate themselves against bad because policy.
But - time and again - thru stand back, throw up their hands, and allow their big business patrons to eat the citizenry alive while insisting they’re impotent to act.
If we’re going to see a future FDR in this country, it’s going to have to be in a place like Illinois or Oregon, where the state has the resources to reform the local economy and protect people ahead of profits.
Otherwise, you just end up with an Obama '09 government, riding through loose monetary policy and letting a new Tech Bubble replace the old FIRE bubble. Or a Biden Admin that ignores the million people lost to COVID while insisting nobody has anything to complain about because the Stock Market was up.
Neoliberal governments give birth to reactionary economic waves. Until that ends, we’re going to keep getting more Republicans in the White House.