Sunday, February 09, 2025

Trump Sparks Private Sector Layoffs

Private-sector employers and nonprofits are starting to lay off workers as a result of the Trump administration's sweeping cuts and funding freezes, unleashing a wave of job losses ...

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"the fallout includes rescinded contracting jobs in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Austin; layoffs at an independent-living facility in West Virginia that relies on federal funding to pay staffers; and furloughs at after-school programs in Maine" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202 ...

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-- Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM

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Private-sector employers and nonprofits are starting to lay off workers as a result of the Trump administration's sweeping cuts and funding freezes, unleashing a wave of job losses that economists say could pick up steam in the coming weeks, threatening the broader labor market

The bankruptcy-prone orange pedo is going to kill the economy like it was Herman Cain.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-09 07:51 AM

Way to go MAGA!

I'm sure that you don't mind being associated with your Master's victories.

Bets that Donald can tank the economy within one year?

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 09:13 AM

Fat Smelvis is determined to blow past the 15% unemployment rate he racked up during his first putrid term.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-09 10:43 AM

Fat Donnie Loser loses again.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-09 03:14 PM

I am an old man, the same age as Trump. In the last few years I have learned to appreciate social services and governmental agencies that exist to help the old, the sick, the...you get the idea. Oddly enough, Trump has seen is as his task to ruin those hopes for the poor and the powerless. Weirdly, enough of my peers voted for him. I understand a very rich person looking to have his/her taxes cut, but for an old person on low social security to vote for Trump is to make your own old age frightening.

#5 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-02-10 05:53 AM

#2
It's a matter of months.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-10 06:55 AM

I'm loving the irony of the small biz republic0wns living in DC metro doing the happy dance about their customer base being laid off... won't hurt until their credit cards are tapped out...

Of course... they'll blame it on the minimum wage.

smh

Ya know the only reason the government creates all those jobs is because the private sector won't do it without slave

#7 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-02-10 07:15 AM

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