The labor market is slowing, but it’s all good news in the White House.

The U.S. added 139,000 jobs in May, a slight decline from April, according to a jobs report released Friday. The unemployment rate remained at 4.2 percent, still within the ballpark of historic lows reached in 2023, when the unemployment rate reached 3.4 percent—the lowest it had been in more than five decades. But within the folds of the report hid a major red flag for Donald Trump’s agenda: The U.S. is still bleeding manufacturing jobs.

But even the president’s favorite conservative network couldn’t hide its dismay at the slight manufacturing downturn.

“Now, 8,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in May. That’s not what you wanted to see,” said Fox Business host Stuart Varney.

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
    6·
    21 hours ago

    Anyway so I’ve noticed how the freeways are clear sooner than usual after 5pm. They’re still long, but sooner means less people in the rat race trying to get home from work.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13·
      21 hours ago

      There was a study or survey or something that showed people are leaving the office earlier than they did before the pandemic, the average being between 3 and 4 pm.

      100% true for me

      • altphoto@lemmy.today
        71·
        21 hours ago

        Same here. The pandemic showed me a couple of things very clearly:

        1. humans make a shit tom of noise.
        2. we pollute and change the climate with our pollution.
        3. staying at home gives me freedom to learn and do a whole bunch of other things.
          • altphoto@lemmy.today
            3·
            20 hours ago

            Yeah that’s what I really meant. Cars, planes and large machinery. When all that stopped for the couple of years…days sometimes weeks at a time, everything was eerily silent.

            • AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee
              2·
              16 hours ago

              That sounds nice. Where I was at the time was close enough to a baptist church that I couldn’t escape their speakers blaring doomsday baptist sermons and gospel music. All day. Every day. For the entire time that churches weren’t allowed to meet inside.

              • altphoto@lemmy.today
                2·
                16 hours ago

                Oh that’s hilarious. We used to live near a Jehovah’s temple or whatever they call it. That literally stopped going house to house for a while.