Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Unemployment Hits 4 Year High

New government data shows unemployment rose to 4.6% -- its highest level since September 2021 ...

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The unemployment rate rose to 4.6%, highest since 2021. https://to.pbs.org/4rVhlLP

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-- PBS News (@pbsnews.org) Dec 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM

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These numbers come just days after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that the government may be inflating jobs numbers by as many as 60K per month. politicalwire.com

#1 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-12-16 10:15 AM

Another clear sign of the Golden Age.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-16 10:15 AM

The disgusting------------ is cooking the books and his numbers are still putrid.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-16 11:18 AM

If they showed the REAL numbers, there might be a Pissy Riot!

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-16 11:20 AM

The unemployment rate for Black workers rose to 8.3% in November, the highest in four years.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The racist------------- is especially proud of this stat.

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-16 11:36 AM

Wait, I've been told that we need millions of illegal immigrants. Because we have too many jobs and not enough workers, yet we apparently have high unemployment? I'm seeing a logical and mathematical disconnect here.

#6 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-16 12:04 PM

You're the patricidal --------- who voted for the necrotizing------------ with the worst jobs record since Hoover.

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-16 12:08 PM

6

You're right....we do need them......but they aren't included in the unemployment numbers. I don't imagine they file for unemployment.

#8 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-16 12:09 PM

I don't imagine they file for unemployment.

Some people think that to get these figures on unemployment, the government uses the number of people collecting unemployment insurance (UI) benefits under state or federal government programs. But some people are still jobless when their benefits run out, and many more are not eligible at all or delay or never apply for benefits. So, quite clearly, UI information cannot be used as a source for complete information on the number of unemployed.

Because unemployment insurance records relate only to people who have applied for such benefits, and since it is impractical to count every unemployed person each month, the government conducts a monthly survey called the Current Population Survey (CPS) to measure the extent of unemployment in the country.

www.bls.gov

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-16 01:00 PM

Wait, I've been told that we need millions of illegal immigrants. Because we have too many jobs and not enough workers, yet we apparently have high unemployment? I'm seeing a logical and mathematical disconnect here.
#6 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-16 12:04 PM

I'm curious how you can make any determinations without the jobs report?

You're a simple bigot, or a lesser-calculated one?

#10 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-16 01:26 PM

@#6 ... I've been told that we need millions of illegal immigrants ...

We do.

... Because we have too many jobs and not enough workers ...

Please explain how those who are currently unemployed might want to work in the farm fields, or on construction sites?



#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-16 01:44 PM

Dan Bondgino hasn't shown in his office for TWO WEEKS.

Perhaps he's hiding with the jobs numbers?

OR, he's already fired and Trump is pretending the government is functioning.

Repubicans are scum.

#12 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-16 01:53 PM

#6 | Posted by BellRinger

Yeah. Watching fat white Trump supporters trying to do those jobs... That'll be some great entertainment!

#13 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-12-16 03:42 PM

"Wait, I've been told that we need millions of illegal immigrants."

Nobody ever told you that.

"Because we have too many jobs and not enough workers, yet we apparently have high unemployment?"

Take a deep breath.

Let's slow things down for you.

We have many open job positions.

W have many unemployed citizens.

And we have many unemployed citizens who aren't applying for the jobs undocumented workers do.

Finally, as those jobs remain unstaffed, the economy contracts.

It's a shame you can't even try to explain why you support Trump's economic agenda when it comes to immigration.

But don't feel bad. None of you America First people can acknowledge that illegal immigrants are a net positive for the economy.

We're really just developing a way to make mass incarceration a thing, with any eye towards expanding the list of Enemies Of The State to be sent to camps. Expanding the Enemies Of The State list has already been publicly announced by the White House.

Republicans don't talk about that either.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-16 03:59 PM

Please explain how those who are currently unemployed might want to work in the farm fields, or on construction sites?

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-16 01:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

There was a time when people would do any job to feed their family and keep a roof over their head.

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-16 04:34 PM

There was a time when people would do any job to feed their family and keep a roof over their head.
#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds

There was a time when any job would do, to feed their family and keep a roof over their head.

That job market doesn't exist any more.

Republicans don't ever talk about that.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-16 04:37 PM

There was a time when people would do any job to feed their family and keep a roof over their head.

#15 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

The rest of us are just waiting on your example.

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-16 04:52 PM

#15 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

I don't see why Americans should take "any job" to save Donald Trump's bacon.

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-16 04:54 PM

There was a time when people would do any job to feed their family and keep a roof over their head.

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Yeah. I read about the Great Depression as well.

#19 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-12-16 05:04 PM

There was a time when people would do any job to feed their family and keep a roof over their head.
#15 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Yeah and that time was not long ago. The US achieved record low unemployment under Biden.
Is that the period of time you referring to?

Most of the people you are portraying as lazy were employed until recently.

#20 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-12-16 05:37 PM

= There was a time when people would do any job to feed their family and keep a roof over their head.
#15 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Did ya'll, I say, ya'll, know that LFT sings?

www.youtube.com

(The one on the right is FISHFART)

They were already the subject of parodies way back in 1972. Now they're just Cultists.

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-16 06:31 PM

Full Version
Boy, the way Glen Miller played.
Songs that made the Hit Parade.
Guys like us, we had it made.
Those were the days

Didn't need no welfare state.
Everybody pulled his weight
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days

And you knew who you were then
Girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

People seemed to be content.
Fifty dollars paid the rent.
Freaks were in a circus tent.
Those were the days

Take a little Sunday spin,
Go to watch the Dodgers win.
Have yourself a dandy day
That cost you under a fin.

Hair was short and skirts were long.
Kate Smith really sold a song.
I don't know just what went wrong
Those Were the Days

(What went wrong was Corporations stopped paying a Living Wage compared to their Profits, that's what went wrong.

And they invested what they made in making Money Speech, inventing Corporate Personhood, and using the Returns on their Investments to buy SC Justices, Politicians, and a Conman President... and entire Cults now, really.)

#22 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-16 06:46 PM

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