Trump's first term brought the worst jobs record since Hoover, and he is picking up where he left off:
The January jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics came in Wednesday morning and showed the nation added just 181,000 jobs between January 2025 and January 2026. That’s about 15,000 jobs a month or fewer than 500 jobs a day in a nation. A booming economy adds about 150,000 jobs a month, Golden said. For context, the U.S. added about 160,000 monthly jobs in 2024.
Further context, under Biden the economy was adding 282,000 a month between June 2022 and February 2024 or 3,380,000 jobs a year.