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The economy was expected to show a massive gain of over one million jobs in April according to most economists but this morning’s official numbers show it grew by only a measly 266,000 jobs. The unemployment rate also ticked up to 6.1 percent.

As CNBC reports:

Hiring was a huge letdown in April, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by a much less than expected 266,000 and the unemployment rate rose to 6.1% amid an escalating shortage of available workers.

Dow Jones estimates had been for 1 million new jobs and an unemployment rate of 5.8%.

Many economists had been expecting an even higher number amid signs that the U.S. economy was roaring back to life…

There was more bad news: March’s originally estimated total of 916,000 was revised down to 770,000, though February saw an upward revision to 536,000 from 468,000.

The numbers mark bad news for the Biden economy. and indicate that it may take far longer for the economy to recover under Biden’s policies than many liberals wanted to believe.



Comments

  1. ALL that Biden does is stumble and bungle. He belongs in his basement. DJT is our TRUE POTUS. KAG!!

    1. And the stock market is up at new ridiculous highs. So what’s it gonna be, inflation like under Jimmy Carter? The $$$$$$ make no sense.

        1. Who wants a job when you can stay home and get a check from the government they need to stop and when they get hungry they will look for a job

          1. People that receive welfare are happy with biden, because he has raised the welfare dollars that people get, by HUGE NUMBERS. So of course they will NOT WORK, they’ll stay home smoke pot and drink, and continue to pop out kids for MORE MONEY!!! It’s SICK AND TWISTED AND biden loves it, more votes for him. What a waste of a person biden is, hell ALL HIS CRONIES ARE BAD PEOPLE, THAT PUT AMERICA & AMERICANS LAST

          2. Rich, let me guess, you have plenty of money and a good job am I my right? And you probably don’t know what it’s like going hungry. The government takes from us so much, they owe us this

        2. You take a look at these trillion $ legislative packages, it is like giving free money to the people too lazy to or don’t want to work. No jobs, just more permanent welfare checks.

        3. The Democrats must have meant GOVERNMENT jobs for highly-paid people; that’s where the money is going.

          1. BidenBidenBidenBiden BidenBidenBidenBidenBidenBidenBiden&Biden,
            That’s who SAID it, but what Biden says changes with the Washington talking points.

        4. China. That’s why the vaccine info. is being stolen from our companies and given to China so they can sell us the vaccine we created.

        5. In China. That’s what criminal demented Joe Biteme promised his Chinese puppet masters to rig the election for him.

    2. DJt I will stand behind 100percent biden is an idiot that lies sales and touches little girls that should never be a leader of anything much less this country. He has taken away everything that Trump has done good has a bug ego and destroying our country

    1. And ignoring, (mostly), the disabled and elderly who are at the rock bottom on the streets.

      Because of a very low SS of $634 after my child support is withheld from my monthly check.
      I am very close to living on only $80/month after my monthly financial responsibilities are covered. Any less and I would be on the streets, even though I respected all American expectations…
      I worked all my life until I had to take ten years off work to take home care of my elderly parents. Some months I have to borrow from neighbors and landlord to make it until the end of the month. I can do light choirs, but until I build my weak body back up, I need temporary assistance.
      So, on the SS-IRS list, I am still called a “deadbeat” Dad since I fell behind.
      Meanwhile illegals at Biden’s border received as much as TEN times that sum EACH month.

      Nice…

  2. Coming out of a pandemic and unemployment ticks up, better let some more illegals in the country to get the focus off of this issue.

  3. We have enough workers without the ILLEGALS. The problem is the DEMOASS unemployed are kissing BIDENS AZZ because of the free crap he’s giving them. This is making them FAT AND LAZY like all the RHINO’S in government. SOCIALISM AT IT’S BEST. Wait till there is no more money to give then this will be truly a third world country .

  4. Sleepy Joe Biden, the Schmuck in Chief, is economically. clueless!

    All Democrap senile Joe knows is how to spend other people’s (US taxpayers) money on crapolla until he bankrupts the USA!

  5. Is this what 80 million people voted for??? Surely you jest. Can there really be that many naive people in the USA?

    The only way this lying bungler got into office was through theft, deceit and cheating.

  6. Eliminate the incentive to not work and people will go back to work. That is what will get everything back on track for a normal economy. Politicians are to worried about votes to do the right thing.

    1. Plus they’re actively TRYING to tank the economy so to usher in communism with them at the top.

  7. DOESN’T ANYONE IN THE CORRUPT BIDEN FAMILY, “LOVE,” THE PATRIARCH
    MORE THAN “MONEY???” TO SPARE HIM
    THE EMBARRASSMENT OF MAKING A
    FOOL OF HIMSELF TO THE WORLD!!!
    WHAT HIS FAMILY IS PUTTING JOE BIDEN THROUGH, IS CLASSIFIED AS
    “SENIOR ABUSE!!!!!”

  8. Why am I not surprised…the dumb leading the dumber…that’s the way this is gonna go until we retake Congress and put Sleepy/Creepy out to pasture to wander aimlessly.

  9. And democrats rejoice! High unemployment a problem? Not at all. The ‘Squatter-in-Chief’s first act was to shut-down pipelines costing thousands of jobs–no worries, we gonna expand the dependency plantation. Sure, we’re welcoming in hordes of new members at the border but it can’t hurt to add more. The more misery, the better, AND we blame the Republicans for it all. Sweet!

  10. Here is clear evidence that the Biden economy is taking hold. The gains previously during Biden’s term had been the result of the Trump business-led economy. Now we are beginning to reap the results of the anti-jobs, government-dominated Biden policies, and these results are just due to Biden policy positions; wait until they are more fully in effect.

  11. Don’t worry…there are plenty of jobs building solar panels !!!! They’re coming people…..please be patient !!!

  12. Low income people and part timers will not work anymore because sleepy Joe is paying them to stay home. Why is this a surprise?

  13. Let’s be fair. Joe’s only been in charge 100 days. He has years left to get us back to normal before we vote him out. I have friends who are living off unemployment, but would rather have their $20 an hour jobs back. And one wife can’t work because daycare is so expensive it wouldn’t pay, and she’s not getting any unemployment insurance. If you don’t like the man, or hate welfare and entitlements give back your stimulus check or be a hypocrite. And the fact is our economy has always done better under Democrats. Do you have to change that. For now Republicans under McConnell are opposed to every pro worker, pro family program the Dems throw out. Republican leadership should just go with being on record for helping workers and the economy even if it hurts. We can turn that around and reverse the progress In 2022.

    1. The economy always does better with commiecrats in charge? What are you smoking? We had a record breaking low jobless rate with Trump and then your commie asshole crowd stole the election. But be warned. God help you bastards if you ever try it again. BLM will become back page news. As they should be.

  14. Remember when Obama/Biden promised America shovel-ready jobs? Those jobs never materialized, and the Obama/Biden Administration pass only one stimulus package in its eight years because the stimulus wasn’t spent on what was promised. Deja vous: Biden/Harris have multiple stimulus, but only one-tenth of the stimulus is going to its intended purpose, like COVID and the proposed infrastructure. The proposed infrastructure bill will cost Americans $2.5 Trillion, according to the Wharton School of Business, but less than one-tenth will restore actual infrastructure, such as highways, bridges and ports, and expand available bandwidth; instead, Biden/Harris is giving the far-left its pipe-dream Green New Deal. On its first day in office, Biden/Harris eliminated 11,000 high-paying jobs, including 8,000 union jobs, in the energy sector by repealing the Keystone pipeline, which impacts numerous secondary jobs depend on the purchasing power from those high-paying jobs. It has a domino effect. And Biden/Harris have no apparent strategy for replacing those high-paying jobs.

  15. STUMBLE BUM NUMBER ONE HERE IN FUZZY JOE OF THE ” BASEMENT BRIGADE!” HE IS THE BIGGEST DISGRACE SINCE THE COUNTRY WAS RATIFIED INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN 1778! THANKS TO THE ” SOROS ” TYPE OF THIEVING PIGS FOR HIM ILLEGALLY GAINING THE PRESIDENCY! COME 2022 and 2024 THE REPUBLICAN CONCERVATIVE PARTY HAS TO REGAIN FULL CONTROLL TO SAVE THIS ” ROTTEN CUMBORAT SHIP ” FROM SINKING TOTALLY INTO MARXIST SOCIAL DICTATERSHIP IN THE SLUM PIT!

  16. Why should this be any surprise ? Pass huge spending bills to be paid at an unspecified later date . Announce that corporations are not paying “their fair share’ . Sensible conclusion

    • after tax return on savings and investment are going to decrease substantially
    • expecting anything but a contraction of economic activity is shear stupidity . Why would anyone expect hiring to do anything but contract ?
    • Clearly Pelosi and company didn’t think the extended unemployment after the last “recovery act ” ( after the financial crisis) was bad enough
  17. I remember from Ol’ Possums practical book of Cats the character McCavity the cat . They always looked for him but he wasn’t there. The same with the potus he is here but he isn’t here between the ears. If small business is shut down they ain’t got a business. Big business and cronies have raked off trillions of fiat money dollars and the laid off and fired are collecting money from the public coffers. They are getting more for not working than if they went back to work and the shut down small business cannot compete with that. Who wants to work for less than he or she gets for doing nothing? Jobs huh?

  18. There’s no real problem here for the Demorats. They will just fire or “disappear” all of the “little people” who put out that report, and put in a bunch of LGBT hysterics who will be more than happy to “correct” it.

  19. Pedo Joe knows NOTHING about doing anything but destroy jobs. That is what all his taxes will do.

  20. THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND WANT TO KILL OUR ECONOMY WHILE THE BIDENS MAKE BANK WITH THE CCP ALLOWING THEM TO DRILL ON OUR LANDS ACROSS THE U.S.!!!
    HUDSON WEST(1,2,3,4 & 5) LIQUIFACTION PROJECT HUNTER 50% OWNED AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF CCP AND CEFC AND NEARLY EVERY SENATOR, GOVERNOR, MAYOR AND ELLECTORATE IN ON THE TAKE!! WE GET MANIPULATED AND FORCED INTO “GREEN” NEW DEAL WHILST CHINA IS ALLOWED TO DRILL FOR OIL WELL PAST 2023!!! INCLUDES DRILLING IN MICHIGAN AND OHIO!!

  21. STARTING 5/11/2021 WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS ALL GASS STATIONS WILL BE SEEING MAJOR MAJOR ISSUES DUE TO NOT HAVING ANY GAS FOR SALE!
    NO GAS!
    THEY DON’T WANT US DRIVING ANYHOW. AND LIKELY ARE WANTING US TO TAKE TRAINS THAT WILL BOOST THEIR FINANCIAL POWERS AND CONTROL POWERS OVER THE PEOPLE!!

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