264,000 Americans stopped looking for work last month.
Nobody needs a government report to tell them the economy is worsening. Grocery and gas prices have climbed for more than a year while paychecks barely moved. Today’s report showed where that leads. Stores and restaurants cut jobs because customers stopped spending, and more people decided looking for work was pointless. The share of Americans in the workforce fell to its lowest point in 50 years outside the pandemic.
The unemployment rate actually went down because a quarter million people quit looking. And Trump answered the worst jobs report of his term by notifying Fed Governor Lisa Cook that he intends to fire her, six weeks after the Supreme Court blocked his first attempt.
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