US hiring stalls with employers reluctant to expand in an economy grown increasingly erratic
apnews.com
The American job market, a pillar of U.S. economic strength since the pandemic, is crumbling under the weight of President Donald Trump’s erratic economic policies.
  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    16·
    18 hours ago

    No shit, this place is lousy with fascists who might show up and arrest everyone, until they get itchy trigger fingers and just shoot people to death instead of tear gas and beatings

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    7·
    17 hours ago

    Questionable immigration policies that lead to slow downs in agriculture and construction. Unstable trade policies that lead to slow downs in manufacturing. Unstable tax policies that redistribute wealth away from the consumer leading towards slowdowns in the consumer economy. All naturally leading toward Rising unemployment and Rising long-term unemployment. It’s an unannounced recession.

    • thefluffiest@feddit.nl
      3·
      15 hours ago

      Things probably ARE worse already. Every government post producing this kind of statistic is now run by some Trump bootlicker, so don’t trust what you’re seeing.