Companies in the private sector added just 77,000 jobs in February, payroll processing firm ADP said on Wednesday.

Employers revealed more job cuts in February than they had in any month since July 2020, according to a report released Thursday, with much of the reduction concentrated in efforts led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The Trump administration’s massive federal cuts and swelling feelings of economic uncertainty helped fuel a recession-level spike in layoff plans last month, new data showed Thursday.

U.S. employers added a booming 256,000 jobs in December, shrugging off high labor costs, slowing sales and uncertainty about President-elect Donald Trump’s economic policies.

The unemployment rate fell from 4.2% to 4.1%, the Labor Department said Friday.

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had estimated that about 165,000 jobs were added last month, based on their median forecast.

Job growth in the U.S. slowed much more than expected during July and the unemployment rate ticked higher, fueling fears of a broader economic slowdown, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Nonfarm payrolls grew by just 114,000 for the month, down from the downwardly revised 179,000 in June and below the Dow Jones estimate for 185,000. The unemployment rate edged higher to 4.3%, its highest since October 2021.

U.S. job growth cooled sharply in July while the unemployment rate unexpectedly rose to the highest level in nearly three years.

The Labor Department reported Friday that employers added 114,000 jobs in July, missing the 175,000 gain forecast by LSEG economists. The unemployment rate also unexpectedly inched higher to 4.3% against expectations that it would hold steady at 4.1%. 

It marked the highest level for the jobless rate since October 2021.

The US labor market cooled off far more than expected last month, underscoring concerns that the economy has slowed down too quickly and could lead to a recession.

Businesses added just 114,000 jobs in July, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday and the unemployment rate unexpectedly leapt to 4.3%, which is the highest since October 2021.

A cooldown but not a crash: That’s roughly the picture economists expect the latest government data to paint — again — of the American labor market.

Every first Friday of this year (here, here and here) we have spent hours deconstructing the glaring propaganda peddled by Biden's Labor Department, meant to show just one thing - how "strong" the economy is under the current administration - and exposing just how ugly the underlying labor data truly is.

Employers in the United States added 272,000 workers to their payrolls in May, the Department of Labor said Friday.

Economists had forecast payrolls would grow by 182,000 and the unemployment rate would hold steady at the prior month’s 3.9 percent.

Prior to the most recent report, the economy has been adding an average of 242,000 jobs per month. The private sector has averaged 197,000.

The hotter-than-expected jobs number is likely to push off hopes for rate cuts until the end of this year or into next year.