2026-02-12 10:07:34

📉Minus 862,000 jobs—the largest correction since the 2009 crisis

BLS revised the data: in 2025, the U.S. economy created only 181,000 jobs for the entire year. For comparison: in 2024, there was +1.459 million.

After the revision, in 2025, an average of only about 15,000 jobs were added per month, one of the weakest figures outside of a recession.

💼The number of federal employees is 2.68 million, the lowest in 60 years.

Yes, January showed +130K and an unemployment rate of 4.3%. But the overall picture indicates that the labor market is significantly weaker than headlines suggest.

⚠️A weak labor market increases recession risks, meaning the Fed has fewer reasons to keep rates high. Slowing employment, large downward revisions, and overall economic cooling point to the need for monetary policy easing.

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