Qualified candidates struggle in a sluggish market due to Trump tariffs, AI screening and vanishing entry-level roles***
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced on Tuesday that the US added 911,000 fewer jobs than first estimated for the year to March 2025, highlighting already heightened concerns about the health of the labor market.
The news followed a lackluster August jobs report, with only 22,000 jobs added in the US. That report noted that 13,000 jobs were lost for the month of June 2025, the first negative jobs report survey since December 2020, the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate increased to 4.3%, the highest rate since 2021.
Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of labor statistics, was fired by Trump after a weak job’s report in July, which the president claimed, without evidence, was “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad”.
It’s true. It’s really, really bad. Linked in is (my estimate) about 50% jobs-that-don’t-exist-they’re-just-collecting-resumes-to-replace-the-current-people-with-lower-priced-ones and straight up scams (pro tip, always speak to a human on the phone at some point before giving any serious information.)
Secondly, you have to use a tool that matches your resume to the job posting and changes all the words to match the posting exactly. For example, if you have CI/CD as a skill and the job posting using CICD, you have to change your resume. Or sometimes they’ll spell it out so then you have to spell it out.
Which is such utter bullshit because you have to spend time adjusting your resume for every fucking job posting just to get past a fucking machine so hopefully a human sees it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_strike
Sorry, folks. Wages got too high. Labor must be discipled.
But don’t worry, the Big Wall Street Number will continue to go up.
If you had voted, maybe it would have been better.
Honestly can’t tell if this is a joke anymore
Well, when you admit to not voting it kinda sticks with you.
It’s funny, because I’m one of the reasons Mamdani is going to be the next Mayor of New York
Well, at least you finally came around to voting this time.
Yeah it turns out having a politician who actually believes in popular things motivates people to go vote for them
Good thing nothing bad happened because they sat out
The economy always suffers under Republican leadership. This is an undeniable fact supported by decades of data.
If Americans were intelligent enough to spend a few minutes looking up hard data, maybe we wouldn’t be losing our democracy right now.
The economy always suffers under Republican leadership.
You’ve got Democrats holding governments in a dozen big states. You would like to think New York and California and Massachusetts would be able to use their liberal governors to insulate themselves against bad because policy.
But - time and again - thru stand back, throw up their hands, and allow their big business patrons to eat the citizenry alive while insisting they’re impotent to act.
If we’re going to see a future FDR in this country, it’s going to have to be in a place like Illinois or Oregon, where the state has the resources to reform the local economy and protect people ahead of profits.
Otherwise, you just end up with an Obama '09 government, riding through loose monetary policy and letting a new Tech Bubble replace the old FIRE bubble. Or a Biden Admin that ignores the million people lost to COVID while insisting nobody has anything to complain about because the Stock Market was up.
Neoliberal governments give birth to reactionary economic waves. Until that ends, we’re going to keep getting more Republicans in the White House.
