US gains a robust 266,000 jobs; unemployment falls to 3.5%

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BREAKING: US employers add robust 266,000 jobs in November; unemployment falls to 50-year low of 3.5%

WASHINGTON — Hiring in the United States jumped last month to its highest level since January as U.S. employers shrugged off global trade conflicts and added 266,000 jobs.

The Labor Department says the unemployment rate declined to 3.5% from 3.6% in October, matching a half-century low. And wages rose a solid 3.1% in November compared with a year earlier. The healthy job gain runs against a widespread view that businesses are struggling to find workers with unemployment so low. Persistent hiring should help keep consumers spending — a key engine of growth as businesses have cut their investment spending and exports have stalled.

Monthly job gains have in fact accelerated since this summer, averaging 205,000 over the past three months, up from just 135,000 in July.

 

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It came out Friday, and you didn’t report it until Saturday?

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Thank you realDonaldTrump ... Here’s to FOUR MORE YEARS!

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It's called seasonal hiring.... happens every year.🙄

Keep on pumping that debt money into the economy!

WVUTechGOP ThanksObama

Workforce participation remains at 50 year low. Wages are do low that working makes you poorer

As usual the Trump whore AP neglects to mention that over 50% of those unemployed are not being counted as such nor are any homeless people. Wages are the lowest in the industrialized world forcing people to work 2-3 jobs to survive which make the numbers look better 🖕

Thank you, President Trump🇺🇸

Lot of temporary jobs for the holiday season

Nancy Pelosi hardest hit.

dbongino That's all good and fine unless you're in the 3.5 percent...

Don't forget 200 federal new judges on the bench...no more liberals pushing there agenda through the courts...winning Trump2020

Seems like the president doing what I voted for him to do....Trump2020

dbongino The Dems, Seriously Need to Consider Their Re-Election Chances, if they VOTE YES FOR IMPEACHMENT!

yeah but this number shouldn't bee too surprising considering the well-performing economy and Christmas shopping season approaching. This just means Unemployment will likely skyrocket a percent or two come January.

Impeach this!!! MAGA KAG2020LandslideVictory

Thsnk you Obama said NO ONE!

At this point, the unemployment rate is a meaningless statistic.

Yet ,to some Trump is no good. Pity.

In this great economy you can have as many minimum wage jobs as you want. Hooray!!

Thank you Obama!!!

Trump2020

It's important to note that Trump did not believe news like this when Obama was President. It's one area where I sort of agree with him. These numbers don't say much. Are these seasonal jobs, are they 2nd jobs, what's the average pay, how many people left the work force?

The wet blanket is that many of the new jobs pay less than the jobs we lost during the Great Recession

I don't trust these numbers. Don't trust anything that comes out of this administration. It's all about image for Trump, he's already asking for foreign help for his campaign. I wouldn't put it past him to have his team push to have positive numbers reported.

Hell, even I would have praised Obozo if he'd accomplished these numbers

It's about the economy stupid.

Not where I live. All of the major manufacturing plants have closed. Then we lost our only shopping store.

Uhhh ,Orange Man gooood? 😆😆😆🤩🤩🤩

Democrats are going to have to come up with a different kind of Democrat if they want to win presidential elections in the future. Mark my words!

Donald Trump economy is booming.. yep it sure is..

Donald Trump ✅✅✅🇺🇸🇺🇸✅✅

How many of those jobs pay a living wage? How many will still be there in a month? How many jobs does the average person need to have in order to afford decent housing, clothes, food, etc?

What happened? I thought you said we were entering a recession? That wages were getting stagnant? Have you been lying to us all along? Imagine my surprise.

Impeach!

Doesn’t matter if it’s low income

Kills AP to have to report this

Thank god for realDonaldTrump!

2008-2015 - YAY OBAMA! YOU'RE CREATING JOBS ALL THE TIME! 2016-2019 - THEY'RE JUST SEASONAL JOBS. TRUMP DIDN'T DO THIS. You clowns ever get tired of being wrong?

Will it get as much press after xmas when all these 'jobs' disappear?

Vote for this in 2020. Don’t fuck with this.

To classify as a job, it needs to pay FightFor15 or better!

Wonder what SpeakerPelosi thinks about this.

Trump 2020.....why would you change Captians at this point. I don't need 'free' universal income or 'free' college or 'free' this or 'free' that. I have a job so why do I need democrats?

And stupid Democrats want to impeach the guy responsible for this economy. Idiocy.

Trump!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Yeah! Them low wage jobs are sure paying poor peoples bills! Get real jerks

This is what garners votes!!!

Several generations have never seen unemployment at these levels ‘50+ year lows’ in their lifetime. If people are still out there saying they can’t find work, they just aren’t looking. You literally can’t go anywhere these days without seeing Help Wanted signs/ads.

dbongino And yet the Dems must impeach this President. They’re INSANE!

It added actually about 67,000 non-farm private sector jobs. The number ticked up because the union workers strike ended. Also unemployment rate has barely moved down .2% since last year. We were adding 22,000 jobs a month and 2018 only 6000 a month in 2019

dbongino Thanks, Obama!

dbongino Obviously something the Dims would find a need to destroy. Its what buttheads do.

Outstanding!

Seasonal, part-time, no benefits, minimum wage, but ya.

December’s numbers will be even better, but get back to me in January and February when all the part time employees are fired. Package delivery companies hire a massive number of part time workers, all of which (with the rare exception of one or two) are terminated Christmas Eve!

Impeach that! I love my President!

Lost good jobs in exchange for gigeconomy wages slavery. Again 8 % manufacturing GDP share are too less to enable disruptive technologies in UnitedStates. The critical mass is 25% to get a deregulated innovative Singapore style economy & socialpeace ( 85% homeowners).

Just wondering if those jobs are low wage jobs? Could people afford to live and cover all their needs? Even to pay out of pockets health issues? Just wondering....

BurgundyBurner That's great. Oh wait...

seanmdav Best recession ever!

INCREASE WAGES

pleasebbz let's impeach the man that made this happen

Doesn't paint the whole pic... Everyone can be employed but if the jobs are shit, pay shit, then it's shit. Need to bring MFG back to USA Stop rewarding Corps that send jobs abroad. I don't buy the 'being competitive' BS either. Records profits & still not bringing jobs back!

I have applied to approximately 50 jobs in 3 months and am still not employed. If the labor market is so tight, why is this happening? And I am not the only one experiencing this, many of my friends have had a very difficult time getting hired. Low wage jobs are driving this .

dbongino Winning!!!!

The unemployment statistic is one of the most antiquated empty form of measurement around. It's a boomer stat. Completely unindicative of reality.

JonLemire Added jobs and tax receipts still will not eat into the escalating debt.

MAGA 2020 🇺🇸

Jolyd More winning ... THANK YOU realDonaldTrump

dbongino The Trump economy is raging! I hope the Democraps don't spoil it with their partisan hatred!

IMPEACH!!! I guess Obama hit these kind of levels too right? Oh wait, not even close? If you are arguing that this is a seasonal increase, of course it is, the base on which its planted is not. Stop crying, you lost in 2016 and look completely pathetic now! USA IS WINNING

dbongino Thank... In God We trust!

THE REAL STORY

dbongino MAGA2020Landslide !

dbongino

Remember to give Obama praise because ya know even after 3 years it’s still his doing. 🙃🙃🙃🙃

What about the involuntary part-time work abnormally boosting that number? Tell the people that are struggling to find steady full-time work that they’re adequately employed. 🖕🏼

BREAKING: Wages have been flat since 1983

JonLemire Manufacturing and building down - retail was expected as was medical - stores prepare for Black Friday and Christmas and Medicare expansion via required private supplemental insurance.

Not a Trumpist but I guarantee you liberals & the media have never rooted against the American economy more than they are right now. Americans like the status quo. A good economy and the dotard-in-chief will be re-elected. Heck, I might vote for him over the other clowns.

would be much higher if you include 'career' protesters 😉

JonLemire More people are working two jobs because wage growth is so weak. As expert economists predicted, Trump’s enormous corporate tax cut did not translate to higher wages for workers.

dbongino Trump Factor!!!

MinnPatriot The forecast was for 181K new jobs and reported 266K! Trump2020LandslideVictory

IMPEACH THIS NANCY

*minimum wage jobs -

Is it possible the Department of labor computers are hacked by Russians and they are making up these numbers to make someone look good? Or could there be some operatives manipulating figures? If there are jobs everywhere, why do we still have welfare, even one for farmers now?

Thanks Obama!!

Damn I was told that the plague would return and fire breathing dragons would fill the skies as soon as Trump got elected.

Going to be real interesting to a see how MSM spins this report as a negative. Maybe we can stop with recession fears and Dems can stop talking about how this economy is not working for everyone.

AMSweather

Are these jobs providing a living wage or are people just working multiple side hustles like uber and lyft driving jobs on top of full time jobs; skewing the substance of these numbers?

Thank you President Trump.

Que Trump to take credit for this.

Winning!

MPRnews Is this number going to be retroactively lowered like just about every other jobs report in the past couple of years

Whether it's ultimately Obamas legacy or Trumps tax cuts boosting the economy it doesn't matter. This is the one thing Trump has that's undeniably in his favour.

Thank you Obama!

Unemployment numbers for remainder of year.

Love how people are pissed we have good unemployment numbers.

Translation: 3.5% unemployment rate of those eligible for unemployment. Actually: 13% mostly MINORITY individuals who were never eligible for benefits due to employers high turnover rate. Translation: 266k jobs created Actually: Temp seasonal jobs. Employed long enough to lower

Pay a living wage. That’s what people need. Working 2 jobs to get by isn’t exciting news.

It's a lie. Manipulation. Don't believe anything coming out of this corrupt government.

Thank you realDonaldTrump BestPresidentEver

Democrats still wasting time on an impeachment that can't pass in it's current state.

Seems strange that any of the press would say anything GOOD about TRUMP

Xmas hires

Trump will Ignorantly take credit for this too

How many of these jobs are part time with no benefits though?

I can’t believe Trump is burning the country to the ground like this. This is a national emergency. The world as we know it is at stake with this impeachment.

ForzaCorrado But those trans bathrooms in North Carolina!

Wow that’s way above projected estimates! Trump2020 Trump KAG MAGA

Pdt Trump just got re-elecled !

rodolfoasar es la economía lo que hará reelegir a Trump más allá de que es ser grotesco

This is one of the main reasons Democrats are impeaching President Trump prior to the 2020 presidential election. Democrats know they cannot beat him next year.

Ahem:

Well yeah, tis the season for seasonal employees.

Well done realDonaldTrump fantastic results!

an outlier not borne out by other indices

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