Where shall we begin. ADP is reporting there were only 54,000 jobs added, and most of them were in seasonal hospitality/leisure and health care.
Unemployment rate of recent college graduates is is nearing 6%, double what it was in 2019. College grads are not finding jobs because companies are not hiring.
Core inflation rates rose again and is now up to 2.9%. Price are most definitely are NOT coming down, contrary to the constant lies of the White House.
Walmart and Target employees have been posting thousands of videos showing them ripping price tags off clothing because their employers are preparing for price hikes due to tariffs.
Beef is up 15 to 20% over this time last year. This is pure insanity. Yet this crooked administration never even talks about it. In fact, they keep saying the prices are down on everything and this is the hottest country in the world.
Well, let’s be clear. It is the hottest country in the world, for the ultrarich. For everyone else it is increasingly terrible. The only ones who disagrees are either living in a complete delusion or haven’t had to do a home or car repair recently.
Restaurants are doing horrible and closing and record numbers. Today it was announced that Jenkins BBQ, and 80 year staple in Florida is closing all of their locations. Reason? Too expensive to do business, customers can’t afford their food anymore. This is a very common refrain. We are headed towards the situation where only corporate franchisees will remain —with their toxic ingredients.
The value of the dollar has plunged, and countries that used to be way behind America are now pulling ahead of us because they are teaming up and cutting America out of the trade picture. Trump says installing AI into every system in America will save us, but it will do the exact opposite.
The Trump administration is not creating jobs, they are eliminating jobs with all of the AI and biometric Police state surveillance systems they are installing everywhere. They are eliminating the American way of life, piece by piece, day by day. And yet shockingly Trump fanatics are cheering them on and saying they are doing a wonderful job.
Trump has had nearly 9 months to to build on the successes of 2024. Let’s face it, America was doing well in 2024. He hasn’t built on it at all. He has reversed the progress. He has a stagnant economy that is shrinking every day more and more from Main Street while Wall Street Ultramega wealthy get richer and richer. Ask college grads.
From Newsweek today:
Young college graduates between ages 23 and 27 are experiencing unemployment rates that average 4.59 percent in 2025—a stark contrast to the 3.25 percent rate this same demographic experienced in 2019,” the report read. This increase is more than double that seen among young, non-college educated workers and the labor force as a whole.
“The potential issue is that the labor market is changing—fast,” Philip Oreopoulos, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Toronto, said. “Employers are not currently looking for recent college graduates like they used to, perhaps because current employees are able to do more than before, or perhaps because their firm’s productivity is changing, using technology and labor in ways that lead to lower demand for typical college grad skills.”
so I will ask again: when does the golden age start???