Search results for tag #bls
#Rent prices & the cost of owning a #home, which make up a third of the #inflation index, both rose 0.2% in December, while #rents increased 2.8% from a year earlier. That is much lower than during the pandemic: Rents rose by more than 8% in 2022.
Still, the rental figures were distorted by Oct’s 6-week government #shutdown, which interrupted the #BLS gathering of the data. The govt plugged in “estimated” figures for Oct & November which economists say have artificially lowered #housing costs.
"Inflation is continuing to weigh on consumers exhauste by price hikes"
2.4% #CPI: "Annualized, that steady 0.3% monthly core rise points to🚨3.6% yearly—nearly double the Fed's 2% target."
-A Lisi
"If you don't like the numbers, change the formula."⬇️
-C Mc
#Inflation #Economy #Corruption #BLS #Tariffs #TrumpRegime #USPol
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/cpi-inflation-report-january-2026-65833c36?st=nJABE4
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BLS web pages about seasonal changes affecting the CPI calculation:
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Consumer price inflation excluding food & energy since 2004:
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WSJ article pic: a man looking at prices at a grocery store:
"...delayed January jobs report" announces "better than expected employment numbers."
What are the chances #DonTheCon's latest #BLS Director is cooking the books? 🤔
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
The #DonTheCon Administration released a "better than expected" jobs report.
And I dare question if his new head of the #BLS is cooking the books???
Where on Earth could I *possibly* get an idea like that??? #DictatorDon #CantBelieveAWord #Unemployment #JobsReport
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Graph of the employment numbers for the past year see a steady decline, a plunge in October, and then suddenly, a sharp reversal in November with the appointment of a new head of the BLS followed by a sharp POST Xmas spike in January.
When #DonnieDumbass fired the head of the #BLS b/c he didn't like the numbers she reported ("They MUST be wrong!"), the #JobsReport was put on hold for several months and we had to rely on PRIVATE jobs reports to know what was going on.
The most trusted was "Challenger, Gray & Christmas".
While the "official" report claims "surprising job growth" in January, CGC is reporting "Most job cuts since The Great Recession" of 2009, and "The Worst January" hiring EVER.
If you haven't been following this stuff for long, it might surprise you to know that "adding" 130,000 jobs in a month is a net loss. A jobs report like this would have been taken as a sign of a very poor economy even 15 years ago. The reason is that around 180,000 young people reach legal employment age each month in the US (Contra the admin's confabulations, this is how many US citizens reach employment age, and is not about immigration slowing). Adding 180,000 jobs would be treading water. Adding 130,000 is effectively 50,000 new people without jobs, a net loss by the spirit of this metric. There's also the reality that many of these estimates have been revised down by the BLS after more data came in.
Saying hiring is "picking up" and is "stronger than expected" is effectively saying "it could have been worse! 🤷 ". It's wild to see this positive spin on a very poor report.
It's extraordinarily fishy that the reported unemployment rate is not moving much in spite of these persistent and mounting job losses. I know why this is so please don't @ me a splanation. My point is that it, again, does not reflect the spirit of what this metric is meant to capture. It is wholly perverse now and should not be reported at all, let alone taken as a meaningful indicator.
The US economic numbers, when you push aside all the B.S., are recession-level. There's no "momentum" in the "labor market". There are not "green shoots" or "signs". The economic situation is bad.
The Fed appears to be propping up the markets with additional liquidity.🚨The #TrumpRegime has already been caught fiddling with #BLS data. #Tariffs, the BBB, draconian policies... are still taking a toll on #consumers. What else are Trump & his⭕hiding?:
"Reserve pumps🚨$19.5B into the U.S. Banking System through overnight repos.🚨This is the 3rd LARGEST liquidity injection since Covid (the largest since Covid was on Friday)."
-Barchart
#Economy #Fascism #Data #Inflation #Uprising #Protest #USPol
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Line graph depicting the volume of Treasury securities purchased by the Federal Reserve through overnight repurchase agreements from February 2025 to January 2026. Data shows fluctuations, with notable spikes, and shaded areas indicating U.S. recessions.
Mike Johnson:🚨"America is winning again" after the #GDP rpt: "the direct result” of cong Rs’/Trump’s policies.
Govt shutdown: most impt cause of gaps in the coll data for the #CPI calc.🚨"You've got to take it with a grain of salt -confusing -doesn't quite square with prices that we've observed."
Trump’s steep #BLS cutbacks had already reduced the staff assigned to sampling prices by 25%.🚨Prompted: BLS to substitute imputed#s in lieu of hard data.
#Lies #Fascism #USPol
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/us-viewpoints/article313984187.html
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Image shows Trump’s face, likely conveying a serious or contemplative expression, accompanied by text discussing accusations against the Trump administration regarding manipulated economic data.
#Unemployment rose to a 4-year high of 4.6% in November — the worst since the #pandemic — & the economy “added” 64,000 “#jobs”, new Bureau of #Labor Statistics [#BLS] data shows
#economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #recession #trumpcession #trump
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/16/business/jobs-report-economy?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Fed CHM Powell pointed on Wed to a job-mkt risk: #economists have been worried about: ofcl stats🚨COULD BE DRASTICALLY OVERSTATING RECENT HIRING.
Powell said: Fed staffers believe that fed data could be overestimating🚨job creation by up to 60K #jobs/mo. Given that figures pub so far show that the #economy has added ~40K jobs/mo since Apr, the real# could be something more like a loss of 20K jobs/mo.
#TrumpRegime: is likely fiddling w the #BLS stats.
#Lies #Tariffs #USPol
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/fed-chair-jerome-powell-says-u-s-may-be-drastically-overstating-jobs-numbers-741c635d
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A sign displaying "NOW HIRING" is prominently featured, indicating job openings. Above it, there is another sign that reads "DIESEL." The background shows a clear blue sky. The image is associated with a statement from Fed Chair Powell.
Private employers cut 32k #jobs in November, acc/to the payroll processing company #ADP. Economists are closely watching the company’s data because numbers from the Bureau of #Labor Statistics [#BLS] have been delayed [& are unreliable] by the federal govt shutdown, which ended last month but is continuing to have lingering effects on the nation’s economic stats.
#Trump #economy #inflation #tariffs #recession #unemployment #affordability #CostOfLiving #trumpcession
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/03/us/trump-news/d59c4e1b-0ff9-5512-a6b4-fd0adf144637?smid=url-share
U.S. employers added a surprisingly solid 119,000 #jobs in September, the government “said”, issuing a key economic report that had been delayed for 7 weeks by the federal government shutdown.
Let’s wait for the revised numbers. Plus how can we trust anything this admin says? #Trump fired the head of #BLS for numbers he didn’t like, then put a loyalist in her job.
#economy #labor #JobMarket
https://apnews.com/article/jobs-unemployment-economy-trump-tariff-bf603d63e13d6dc1083e9a6616c7ffee?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-20-September+jobs+report
Yet another reason why the #GOP is in no hurry to end the #Shutdown & reopen the gov't (besides #Grijalva / #Epstein):
#DisasterDon is destroying the #economy (yet again), but there are no numbers to report b/c the #BLS is closed.
So we must go to private reporting, who says layoffs are at a "22 year high.")
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/layoffs-us-october-surge-two-decade-high-challenger-data-shows-2025-11-06/