U.S. Added 199K Jobs in December, Well Below Economists’ Expectations

I've never been sure whether or not the jobs report is any sort of measure of how we are doing. I'm neutral. People have to eat, so obviously they are headed back to work. That doesn't mean they are doing well. That doesn't mean they have decent child care. That doesn't mean they aren't in fear of their Grandpa's life.

I feel like the most hated republican party is preventing the legally elected American President from doing his job.

I'll repeat myself by saying Jarome Powell stated that the biggest hinderance to the jobs numbers improving is getting inflation under control! The Biden Administration wants to spend more money not to getting America on a positive financial footing. Could help Biden's 33% poll numbers but the Dem's think they haven't gone far enough. I would laugh if it was not so serious!

And heres the twist they don't tell you on CNN, all of those jobs are from people who were doing well at their job and were fired for not taking the death jab or sitting through racist anti white, anti America trainings.

My two representatives from IL are PATHETIC!

It is great to create more jobs, so people can provide for their family and not rely fully on the Government to Survive.

No one has taken into account all the people who have died from COVID! These deaths affect the job market! In addition, many people don't want to go back to jobs where they are not valued or paid a living wage! The corporations don't want to reduce their profit in any way, so those who have increased what they pay, have increased their prices. Also, in the past months unemployment has dropped greatly. It only makes sense that until COVID is stopped it will continue to affect the job market! The greed in America just keeps growing! People need to understand that we all need each other to prosper. There is NO JOB that isn't important! The U.S. has a horrible CASTE SYSTEM that must end! We must have equal justice and acceptance for ALL people in America!!!

We are under a complete swindle. The same people who made the virus are forcing these conditions and their FAKE cures and responses upon us. They created the job problem on purpose to carry out their radical agenda on us. Are we going to allow these aggressors to enslave us? You'll have to fight and risk everything or your descendants will be no more than cattle on this planet. Real families will no longer exist for conquered.

#bareshelvesbiden crows about creating the greatest economy ever created while inflation continually rises (I guarantee it's in double digits). I'm quite certain the real unemployment rate is in double digits too, but we'll never see that number because it would put a (currently) slow-moving train wreck on a rocket sled to $#!%sville (rhymes with hits). Any of you hoping the new year would be better, better keep dreaming. All of us warning about Venezuela don't seem so conspiratorial now. Cheers!

Sorry, but more jobs are more jobs. I am happy with more jobs, and really do not care if your predictions were wrong.

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I don't know but I do know that the media lies.

I feel that we've done well considering the huge walls that are in the way. People are becoming ill exponentially. If we can get omicron to stabilize there's a good chance that hiring will take off. But if HR and other hiring personnel are out ill, how can people get hired? I know there are other factors, but this stands out as the most obvious. Maybe we can shore up the CDC to get a uniform message out instead of revising to confuse.

Pass Biden's Build Back Better Plan and watch the magic happen.!

The biden touch, screws up everything.

Quoting Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifying before the Senate Banking Committee he acknowledged " High inflation is a severe threat to the achievement of maximum employment." Everything the Biden administration is doing to spend more than the government is taking in is part of causing inflation. There is NO CONFIDENCE in the Biden Administration to right this ship!

If the "GODS OF PRIVILEGE" would get their lust for power and their greed out of their backsides and do the job they we elected to do, things would improve much faster. Big money donations to campaign funds are a good part of the problem. Big money "wants it all and wants it now" along with our politicians whom they have bought and paid for. Big businesses just don't want to spend their profits on keeping their employees alive and well taken care of. God, forbid they lose a penny. Pride in craftmanship and quality have long been lost to greed in this country and needs to come back with a big bang ASAP so get off your lazy backside and go and vote these "nay sayers" out of office. The only hold up is McConnell and his cronies in the senate. New blood is needed and not the likes of the newest of representatives. Voting is your way of getting things done. (Providing your state's voting count hasn't been bought and paid for by either political party.

Another poor month for new jobs in the US. This, along with the unemployment rate, make big news every month, but they, alone, do not give the public a meaningful view of the state of our economy. Instead, we should have a single monthly press release to the public that includes; New Job Creation. Unemployment Rate, Total Employment, Average Earnings Growth, Number of Open Jobs Available, Total Number of Welfare Recipients and Percentage of People with Income Below the Poverty Level, Doubtful that any President would like to see all of this information released to the public, because it would deter their ability to "spin" the news to make themselves look better than they are!

The economists always seem to be wrong about jobs, I don't worry about their predictions. On the other hand, because of the stupidity of Republicans in resisting common sense health measures regarding the pandemic, people in many jobs feel unsafe going back to work and/or can't go back to work because of child care or school issues. People also realize some jobs have terrible working conditions. Until we have social justice, the jobs market will continue to be in upheaval. Get rid of Republicans in order to have any hope of social justice.

We're still waiting for Biden to live up to the hype.