US Adds 130,000 Jobs and Unemployment Falls After Tepid 2025

[lostincalifornia]

US payrolls rose in January by the most in more than a year and the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell, suggesting the labor market continued to stabilize at the start of 2026.

Employers added 130,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate declined to 4.3%, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data out Wednesday. That followed revisions to the prior year, which showed a marked slowdown in hiring. Job gains averaged just 15,000 a month last year, down from the initially reported 49,000 pace.

US Labor Market Rang in New Year With Solid Job Growth
Employers added larger-than-forecast 130,000 jobs, unemployment declined

The report suggests the labor market is finding its footing after a year marked by rising unemployment and minimal hiring. While economists expect hiring to remain generally sluggish in 2026, more clarity around the impact of President Donald Trump’s economic policies and lower borrowing costs could encourage some employers to boost headcount.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-11/us-payrolls-rise-130-000-unemployment-rate-unexpectedly-falls?srnd=homepage-americas

[maxsolomon]

1. woooooooooo

larger-than-forecasted!

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. BS

Bullshot!!

[Historic NY]

3. LOL these numbers are cooked.

Job gains averaged just 15,000 a month last year, down from the initially reported 49,000 pace.

Trump is still trying to find the right numbers nerd (who can run a set of books)

Revisions: Previous data was revised, with 2025 figures showing 898,000 fewer jobs than initially reported.
They kept inflating the jobs numbers all year..

https://www.businessinsider.com/january-layoffs-cuts-highest-level-since-2009-challenger-2026-2

[LoisB]

4. I call b.s. on this.

[SheltieLover]

5. Lies. There are no jobs out there! None.

[lastlib]

6. These are numbers from the tRump "administration," amirite?

So they're lying.....

"Lies, Damn lies, and statistics...."

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Tepid? LOL, 2025 was an utter disaster for jobs creation

181,000 jobs for the year, 15,000 a month. That's a total disaster. Biden handed trump a booming economy that was creating 184,000 jobs a month in 2024. Trump destroyed the job creating machine that Biden built.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Does anyone trust numbers from trump?

[Takket]

9. There is no way these numbers are real

Probably what they are doing is lumping in 2025 job gains into January of this year to pad the numbers. Hence the revision down of 2025 numbers. ABC article said total for last year was 181000 job down from initial count of 584000 jobs. They probably knew that number was going to look like shit regardless, so they just made the 181000 number lower than what it actually was and “moved” those job gains to Jan 2026.

[awesomerwb1]

10. Heard some experts being interviewed on NPR

the other day and they said the job openings are down and people are staying at their jobs more.

I don't believe these numbers one bit.

[Dave says]

11. A paradise of job opportunities!

One thing that makes this number believable (130,000 open jobs) is deportations. Looks like 115,000 jobs open because the individuals doing the previous jobs -- construction, farm labor, meatpacking, cleaning hotel toilets, etc. -- have been deported? These wonderful high-paying jobs are awaiting Americans to fill them now. We live in a paradise of new career opportunities!

[617Blue]

12. FAKE FAKE FAKE. The GDP number is FAKE too.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. MaddowBlog-New report shows 2025 was even worse for U.S. job market than we thought

A question for the White House: If Trump has created the greatest economy in history, why did job growth slow to a 16-year low after he returned to power?

We thought 2025 was a bad year for the U.S. job market. We now know it was far worse than we feared.

The question for the White House is simple: If Trump has created the greatest economy in history, why did job growth collapse after he returned to power?
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-11T14:00:53.622Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-report-shows-2025-was-even-worse-for-u-s-job-market-than-we-thought

Expectations heading into this week showed projections of about 55,000 new jobs being created in the United States in January. As it turns out, according to the new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the totals exceeded those expectations. CNBC News reported:

Job growth was stronger than expected to start 2026, providing some relief to concerns about the state of the U.S. labor market.

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 130,000 for January, compared to the downwardly revised growth of 48,000 in December, and above the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 55,000, according to seasonally adjusted figures the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Wednesday.

The unemployment rate edged lower to 4.3%.

....But while the new report wasn’t a disaster, it’s only a small part of a larger picture: The February report from the BLS is unique because it includes revised data from the entire previous calendar year.

And on this front, the new data is quite brutal.

Previous estimates showed that the U.S. economy generated 584,000 jobs in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term, which was deeply discouraging. In fact, if we exclude years in which the economy fell into recession, the preliminary data showed that 2025 was the worst year for U.S. job growth since 2003.

Now, however, the picture is far worse: The newly revised, final data shows that the U.S. economy added only 181,000 jobs in 2025......

In other words, what would ordinarily be seen as a good month for job growth represented the entirety of the year. Indeed, in the final month of Joe Biden’s presidency, the economy created 237,000 jobs, more than entirety of the year that followed.

What’s more, we now know that in four months last year, the U.S. economy actually lost jobs — the first time this has happened since the Great Recession.

This week, the president peddled a familiar boast, insisting that he’s responsible for creating “the greatest economy, actually, ever in history.”

That was bonkers for a variety of reasons, but the new jobs data makes the claim look even worse. Indeed, the question for Trump and his White House team is simple: If Trump has created the greatest economy in history, why did American job growth slow to a 16-year low after he returned to power?

[Torchlight]

14. And Moody's never squibbed ratings for the big investment agencies

Go on Big Money, pull my other one while you're at it...