by Tim Henderson, Kentucky Lantern
September 5, 2025

The United States added only 22,000 jobs in August, and previously reported gains in June were revised down to a loss of 13,000 jobs in a Bureau of Labor Statistics report issued Friday morning.

The August jobs increase was the lowest for that month since 2010 in the aftermath of the Great Recession. June’s decrease was the first jobs loss since a December 2020 COVID-19 surge shuttered restaurants and hotels.

A recent Stateline analysis showed that Virginia and New Jersey may be among the states most affected by recent hiring slowdowns, based on surveys and layoff reports, while California and Texas appeared to continue job gains.

Job openings fell to a 10-month low in July, according to a separate government report issued Sept. 3, and there were more unemployed people than jobs available for the first time since 2021.

Last month’s revisions to the jobs report enraged President Donald Trump when they first appeared Aug. 1. The revisions showed the nation had 258,000 fewer jobs than initially reported in May and June.

In response, Trump declared the numbers were wrong, fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, Erika McEntarfer. He offered as a replacement E.J. Antoni, a loyalist who has proposed suspending the jobs report entirely. Trump falsely said in a Truth Social post at the time that the revised jobs numbers were “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.”

Stateline reporter Tim Henderson can be reached at thenderson@stateline.org.

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Political Bias Rating: Center-Left

The content presents a critical view of the Trump administration’s handling of economic data, especially surrounding job loss revisions and the firing of a Bureau of Labor Statistics official. It highlights labor union protests and concerns about jobs, which are often emphasized in center-left discourse. However, the reporting is largely factual with multiple citations and attempts to provide context without overtly partisan language, indicating a moderately left-leaning but generally balanced perspective.

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