U.S. economy unexpectedly sheds 92,000 jobs in February

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/06/jobs-february-unemployment-trump

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HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 99 pts · 191d

Unexpectedly? Not really *gestures broadly *

NoTagBacks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 47 pts · 191d (2 replies)

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 191d (1 reply)

NoTagBacks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 191d

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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 47 pts · 191d

Unexpectedly?

dominic.borcea@piefed.social · 41 pts · 191d

UNeXpEcTeDLy

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 191d

“Unexpectedly” lmao okay sure

Zephorah@discuss.online · 33 pts · 191d

Expectedly.

BC_viper@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 191d

Unexpectedly, pretty sure everyone who knows anything about anything could disagree.

Blum0108@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 191d

Cue the fox News report on how it's actually good to lose jobs. The economy is "getting leaner" or "more streamlined" or some bullshit.

cmeu@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 191d (2 replies)

The most magnificent, strongest, and healthiest economy... It's really the best, you can't do any better and we're doing it. We're really doing great work with it

NoTagBacks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 191d

A truly bigly covfefe economy.

iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 191d

I read magnificent as malignant. Not sure which is better to your average kleptomaniac writing about "the economy".

shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 191d

tdawg@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 191d (1 reply)

Imagine thinking the market is in anyway okay rn

CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 191d

Bu bu but the dow! The DOW!

dmtalon@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 191d

winning!

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 190d

okay so they split out farm payrolls as an attempt to remove seasonal workers but did they actually remove seasonal workers from their datasets or are they pretending farm workers make an effective proxy? because i bet you if i dig into the dataset they are not.

everyone knows seasonal workers get fired in january and february. i bet the real numbers are way worse.

preschool236@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 191d

so much winning

smeg@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 191d

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