XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: bks@panix.com   
      
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | Layoff announcements top 1.1 million this year, the most   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | since 2020 pandemic   
      
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | Economic Confidence Slips; Holiday Spending Plans Plummet   
      
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> | America's affordability crunch is real -- and worse under   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> | Trump   
      
    |   
    | JUST IN: The U.S. economy added only 50,000 jobs in   
    | December and a meager 584,000 jobs in all of 2025. That's   
    | the worst year for job gains outside of a recession since   
    | 2003. And nearly 85% of the job gains happened by April.   
    | There was little hiring the rest of the year.   
    |   
    | Unemployment rate: 4.4% in December, up from 4% in January.   
    | ...   
      
      
       --bks   
      
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