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Is it possible for democracy to win a quiet battle—and nobody notices? This clip tells a three-act story about the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the agency that produces the jobs report and… The BLS, Jobs Data, And Trust: Justin Wolfers On What Really Happened

My menchies show a lotta distrust about the official jobs numbers right now.

Lemme be clear: I don't believe there's *any* political meddling in these numbers.

While the President has tried to mess with the BLS, he failed. I explain in a lot more detail, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kncV...

Manufacturing overall has LOST jobs over the past year (-83k).
Pretty much every manuf subsector is flat or down, with modest exceptions for fabricated metal products, electrical equipment, food.

#OneBigUglyBill

U.S. jobs growth is *entirely* one sector.

Last month, growth in private education and health services accounted for +137k of +130k jobs added

Over the past three months, it's +246k of +219k

Last six months: +367k of +85k

Last year: +773k of +359k

Yikes here are the numbers for the past 12 months. Everything is pretty much dead except healthcare/social assistance. Note that healthcare growth is largely not about the business cycle -- it's about the aging of the population and more elderly people needing care.

Payrolls rose a very healthy +130k in January, and unemployment fell a tick to 4.3 percent.

Revisions subtracted -17k from the past two months, so not much there.

This is the healthiest jobs report we've seen in a while. Keep your fingers crossed.

Lotta detail to process still...

Most of the job gains for January were in education/healthcare -- but especially healthcare (+82k)

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Solid number January 2026 (+130k). However, the change in total nonfarm employment for 2025 was revised from +584,000 to +181,000 (seasonally adjusted). So much weaker than initially estimated

Arlington, Texas.

We can’t get an affordable steak because of Trump’s sorry goldbricking ass.

Beef prices in Feb 2026 are Joe Biden’s fault. Maybe Hunter Biden too. And Michelle Obama. bsky.app/profile/atru...

“I can get read in on it, it just hasn’t been a priority for me” is the absolute worst way to answer this question

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Those billionaires are really feasting

“.. the feast and the banquet ..” 💕

U mad bro?

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This is how it used to be.

Whitney Houston, gone 14 years ago today.

Her rendition of the National Anthem, at Super Bowl 25, “will forever be part of American music history,” wrote the New Yorker. “One of the most influential performances of a national song since Marian Anderson in 1939.”

#RIP

Scale of 1 to 10, 1 being bad, 10 being good, where does the jobs report fall today?

Hmmmmm……

Ask an actual homeland security expert and…yeah, we don’t know what this is

“.. as the Dutch brewer struggles with declining demand for beer.” 🍺

@financialtimes.com
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How can Starmer regain any authority or respect after this?

US HIRING AT RECESSION LEVELS: HIRING RATE AT 3.3%, MATCHING THE 2020 CRISIS AND NEAR A 13-YEAR LOW.

Rep. Johnson: If you have to produce a passport in order to register to vote, we have tens of millions of people in this country that don't have access to passports. Are we going to then waive the passport fee of $150 so it's not an unreasonable poll tax?

He must not be getting his beak wet on this deal.