{"id":463455,"date":"2026-02-12T04:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463455\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:05:09","slug":"data-reveals-trump-economy-added-hundreds-of-thousands-fewer-jobs-in-2025-than-previously-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463455\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Reveals Trump Economy Added Hundreds of Thousands Fewer Jobs in 2025 Than Previously Reported"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revised federal data released Wednesday shows that the US economy under the stewardship of President Donald Trump<\/a> added hundreds of thousands fewer jobs in 2025 than previously reported, further undercutting the president’s claim<\/a> to have ushered in the “greatest” economy in history.<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said<\/a> Wednesday that US employers added just 181,000 jobs last year, an average of roughly 15,000 per month. That’s roughly 69% fewer than the previous estimate of 584,000 jobs created in 2025.<\/p>\n

Groundwork Collaborative<\/a>, a progressive advocacy group, said <\/a>the updated figures paint “a grim picture” of the job market under Trump, who has repeatedly promised\u2014and taken credit for bringing about\u2014an economic boom.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s numbers show that the economy spent 2025 treading water<\/a> while costs surged and families fell further behind,” said Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork. “Job growth was dramatically weaker than advertised and concentrated nearly entirely in healthcare<\/a>, leaving the rest of the labor market to stall. Opportunities are drying up outside a handful of sectors, and more and more workers<\/a> are settling for part-time hours or have stopped looking for work entirely. 2025 was a lost year for American workers.”<\/p>\n

Daniel Zhao, chief economist at the employment site Glassdoor, told<\/a> the New York Times<\/a> in response to the revised numbers that “we\u2019ve been hearing from workers that the job market is not working for them for some time.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe anecdotes are starting to align with the data,” Zhao added.<\/p>\n

A separate analysis released Wednesday by Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) found<\/a> that the US lost 108,000 manufacturing jobs during the first year of Trump’s second term in the White House<\/a>, despite the president’s pledge to revive American industry through his tariff regime.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile President Trump promised us a manufacturing boom, the reality of his first year has been a bust,\u201d said Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), the JEC’s ranking member. \u201cIt is critical for both our national security and our economic future that we grow our manufacturing sector. The president has instead spent his first year burdening manufacturers with reckless tariffs<\/a>, and this loss of jobs is the result.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Revised federal data released Wednesday shows that the US economy under the stewardship of President Donald Trump added…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,12,101,214273,134],"class_list":["post-463455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-groundwork-collaborative","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}