With news of layoffs still ringing through the headlines, the labor market is poised to wobble its way into the new year. Don’t give it any egg nog. 🥴🚫
If you only skimmed the latest jobs report, you may have missed some concerning stats. 📊 Let’s take a closer look at what’s inside. ⏬
Here’s Five Fast Facts on current employment trends:
- ✂️ Deep Cuts - In the first four months of 2025, things weren’t so bad. We were averaging around 122,000 new jobs a month. But then, the script got flipped. Between May and November, we only averaged 32,000 a month.
- 👩🏻⚕️ Hellooooo Nurse - Almost all of the last two months’ private sector job growth was only in two sectors: social services and healthcare. Home health care aides and nursing home jobs had the biggest growth in November.
- 👎 Biggest Loser - Government employment had the most losses this year, but business services jobs took a big hit, too. That sector experienced an 80,000-job decline. And even with the current administration’s promises to revamp manufacturing, 63,000 jobs were lost.
- 📈 Troubling Trend - Over the last several months, black unemployment outpaced the overall joblessness rate. Black unemployment reached a yearly low of 6% back in May, but by November, it was up to 8.3%. Between May and November, U.S. unemployment jumped by 0.4%, but black unemployment rose 2.3%.
- 💸 Teen Machine - Teen unemployment is also way up. It jumped from 13.2% in September to 16.3% in November. It hasn’t been that high since the Covid days.
🔥Bottom line: What will the employment fairy bring us in 2026? We’re hoping for a big fat bonus check…and maybe a pension. Think you have what it takes to become the next American millionaire? More peeps than ever are hitting that magical milestone. Check out the latest stats in this article!
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