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The Fed Just Admitted the Job Market Is Worse Than Official Data Suggests

December 15, 2025 Brian Dantonio

Rendering of Powell looking at the lectern with a spreadsheet

The official government data paints a picture of a labor market that is cooling but resilient, with steady, albeit modest, job growth. But on Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled a far more somber reality: once the statistical dust settles, the true picture of the American economy may be one of job destruction, not creation.

New BLS data confirms a two-year slide in U.S. factory jobs

December 4, 2025 Brian Dantonio

A factory worker standing in a warehouse.

U.S. manufacturing has posted 21 straight months of job losses, intensifying debate over tariffs, prices, and policy failures.

Greene calls H-1B “mass replacement” of U.S. workers. The data is less clear.

November 17, 2025 Brian Dantonio

A big tech employee disembarks from a private jet and shakes hands with an HR person.

Greene wants to end the H-1B visa program, Trump wants to keep it, and the data tells a much more complicated story about who is actually getting hired in Big Tech and beyond.