title: BLS: Gross job losses exceeded gross job gains in 9 out of 13 industry sectors in Q2
author: u/grindleetcodenonstop
contenttype: redditpost
publication: r/Economics
published: 2026-02-28T10:48:39+00:00
sourceurl: https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/1rgzm7m/blsgrossjoblossesexceededgrossjobgains_in/
word_count: 10
Link: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cewbd.pdf
Score: 680 | Comments: 8 | Subreddit: r/Economics
Top Comments
u/RIPSouljaSlim (30 pts):
I’d imagine once revisions come out we’re going to see that 2025 was a net negative year for jobs, what’s interesting is that the bulk of this happened across the summer and early fall, job velocity in general seems to be improving at the moment.
Obviously nobody knows the future, but you can only have consumption increasing while jobs are decreasing for so long, eventually one needs to correct, hopefully it’s the labor market back up.
u/exalted985451 (30 pts):
They really need to fix their dumbshit bucketing together of education and health services. Words words words words Words words words words Words words words words Words words words words Words words words words Words words words words.
u/zxc123zxc123 (15 pts):
FAKE NEWS! We created millions of jobs last ~~month~~ year! The only folks who lost jobs were DEI hires and woke liberal extremists. Everyone knows the Trump economy is the greatest economy in the world! Sleep Joe Biden never had these numbers! He's so bad! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
GOP/MAGA types will literally eat that shit up and vote for more even as they are unemployed, losing SNAP, losing their healthcare, losing their farm, losing their family/friends, losing their local hospital, and maybe soon losing their car/home/lives. (Heck many of them lost their lives during the pandemic and the rest of them still voted for Trump a 3rd time).
That said, for the folks who don't have their heads up their asses: should just focus on up-skilling, learning AI proof or AI synergistic skills, building a financial security buffer, having backup plans (education/retirement/movingbackhome/etc), and cutting back spending.