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Bernardo de La Paz

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7. Actually it is a full job market, but it will soon deteriorate. You are right about vegetables :)

Reply to travelingthrulife (Reply #5)

Fri Feb 7, 2025, 10:37 AM

Feb 2025

Low unemployment means "full employment", full of jobs and some upward wage pressure for a bit, part of a bit of an inflationary bump briefly that I expect before a longer economic contraction begins, I think.

Soon there will lots of skilled and professionals looking for work as goobermint layoffs begin and tariff contractions bite.

You are right: They will not be taking jobs tending vegetable fields.

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U.S. economy added just 143,000 jobs in January but unemployment rate fell to 4% [View all] BumRushDaShow Feb 2025 OP

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I was surprised how quick CNBC had it. BumRushDaShow Feb 2025 #2

Payroll employment rises by 143,000 in January; unemployment rate edges down to 4.0% mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 #3

Tsf will pull out the black sharpie and make everything better chicoescuela Feb 2025 #4

These people being forced out of their jobs are facing an empty job market. travelingthrulife Feb 2025 #5

Actually it is a full job market, but it will soon deteriorate. You are right about vegetables :) Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2025 #7

Ok, I see my mistake travelingthrulife Feb 2025 #13

Doesn't get any better than this, even for maga Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2025 #6

Statement from the Press Secretary on January's jobs report mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 #8

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It is ridiculous to call the jobs revisions "substantial". Wiz Imp Feb 2025 #12

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