The United States added 147,000 jobs in June, beating expectations for the fourth straight month — the latest economic win for President Donald Trump and his administration.
The June jobs report, released Thursday, shows growth across sectors as the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, its lowest since February. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1940754759784288760">celebrated</a> the news, and promised that the economy would continue to boom if Congress passes the One Big Beautiful Bill.
“For the FOURTH month in a row, jobs numbers have beat market expectations with nearly 150,000 good jobs created in June,&#8221; Leavitt said in a <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1940754759784288760">statement</a> on X.&#8221; American-born workers have accounted for ALL of the job gains since President Trump took office and wages continue to rise. The economy is booming again and it will only get better when the One, Big, Beautiful Bill is passed and implemented!”
&#8220;This jobs market is like the Energizer Bunny,&#8221; CNN reporter Matt Egan said Thursday. &#8220;Every single time we expect it to run out of steam, it just keeps going and going,&#8221; one analyst said. &#8220;We were also expecting a slow down — we did not get that.&#8221;
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CNN: &quot;This jobs market is like the Energizer Bunny. Every single time we expect it to run out of steam, it just keeps going and going.&quot;
&quot;We were also expecting a slowdown — we did NOT get that.&quot;
&quot;The unemployment rate was expected to go up — it didn&#39;t. It went DOWN.&quot;
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Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1940759992749212147">credited</a> President Trump&#8217;s strategy for the growth.
&#8220;Hats off to President Trump because this three-legged stool of his has really been powerful: the trade, the taxes, and deregulations together,&#8221; Ortiz told Fox News. &#8220;It&#8217;s all about jobs, job, jobs.&#8221;
The increase beat both the 110,00 jobs projected by the Dow Jones and the later revised 144,000.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said there was little change in the mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction, construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, information, financial activities, professional and business, and leisure and hospitality industries since last month.
The federal government lost 7,000 jobs, a total decrease of 69,000 jobs since January.
Average hourly pay increased by eight cents to $36.30, a 3.7% increase since this time last year, the report said.
Native-born employment is up more than two million since January, the Council of Economic Advisors <a href="https://x.com/CEA47/status/1940761777408712763">said</a> on social media. Foreign-born employment is down more than 500,000.
&#8220;For the same months last year, foreign-born workers accounted for about 48% of new jobs,&#8221; the council said.
A study from the Center for Immigration Studies, released in June 2024, found that the majority of employment growth since the pandemic went to legal and illegal immigrants, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-one-quarter-of-job-growth-went-to-natural-born-americans-since-2019-study-finds">reported</a>. Although former President Joe Biden touted the millions of jobs created during his presidency, only one quarter of those jobs went to native-born workers.

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Perhaps it is fitting that legendary Beach Boy and California native son Brian Wilson would pass away in the same year that a New York Times headline would ask, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/california-turmoil-resilience.html">“Is the California Dream a Mirage?”</a>
The social, environmental and economic disaster that is California has been mushrooming for decades now, with any improvements in the near term looking about as likely as a working bullet train from the north to the south in that state. The litany of negative facts emerging for the state is accompanied by descriptors such as “worst,” “first,” “record,” “ballooning,” “unsustainable,” “disaster,” and “mismanagement.” These ills are detailed in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-assemblyman-explains-how-state-has-mismanaged-fire-prevention-policies-as-wildfires-rage">myriad</a> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/bad-policy-served-as-kindling-for-californias-wildfires-forest-water-management-social-justice-c5b94a4f?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAif-IufnKaxHOP49zFGTHPZhQuqrXUEi-2TLq3CTiNpkYvlSDqNxFWNzK60iAw%3D&amp;gaa_ts=685d8562&amp;gaa_sig=3-LfR_GHU3tLPG-o-YsVjgoRNU1-opiK9zrnQzURPOZIBNcm7OIKeIV5kTdTHBKbOeKnRJ-BbcIcuJq-0ipu3Q%3D%3D">articles</a> <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/11/opinion/catastrophic-wildfires-left-la-in-ashes-due-to-californias-failing-liberal-leadership/">pointing</a> to California’s failed leadership.
Consider the overall economic situation. California went from a state budget surplus of <a href="https://www.hoover.org/research/after-100-billion-surplus-california-now-faces-73-billion-budget-deficit">$100b to a deficit of $73b</a> in just three years. This was driven in part from its decision in February of 2020 to escalate spending significantly while it was <a href="https://www.ppic.org/publication/whats-behind-californias-recent-population-decline-and-why-it-matters/">losing jobs</a>, and for the first time since receiving statehood in 1850, population. Between 2010 and 2023, the state saw 9.3 million people leave while only 6.7 million arrived — with a disproportionate number of the “leavers” in the high-income, high-tax-paying category.
California had the distinction of being rated as the very worst state in which to do business by <a href="https://chiefexecutive.net/california-is-the-worst-state-for-business-2014/">Chief Executive</a> magazine — for ten years in a row. Others were more positive with The <a href="https://sbecouncil.org/2019/05/06/new-report-sbe-council-ranks-50-states-according-to-public-policy-and-tax-climates-for-small-business/">Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council</a> seeing them as only the second worst state, and the <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/best-worse-states-entrepreneurs">Cato Institute</a> placing them at 48th out of 50 for entrepreneurs.
<a href="https://californiapolicycenter.org/reports/worsttobest/">The California Policy Center</a> concludes: 
“For anyone operating a business in California – small, medium or large – the experiences of the last twenty years have been challenging, and it gets worse every year. California’s regulatory environment, its high taxes and exorbitant fees, and the overall cost of doing business are the toughest in the nation. Many businesses have voted with their feet, moving their operations to more welcoming business environments.” 
According to WalletHub.com’s report “<a href="https://wallethub.com/edu/best-places-to-retire/6165">Best &amp; Worst Places to Retire (2025)</a>,” which examined 182 cities across the U.S., four out five of the worst cities in which to retire are in California.
The story is equally daunting in a host of other arenas for the state — education, illegal immigration, water, violent crime, theft, housing, insurance, energy, environment, assorted taxes and fees, cost of living, state employee pensions, healthcare, and more. <a href="https://www.consumeraffairs.com/movers/%23editorial">ConsumerAffairs</a>, a consumer news and advocacy organization, compared all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. across five categories: affordability, economy, education and health, quality of life, and safety. California ranked as the single least desirable state to move to. Their conclusion might have been influenced by seeing that, compared to all other 49 states in the nation, California has the:
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<li>Highest <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-280.html">poverty rate</a></li>
<li>Highest top marginal <a href="https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-income-tax-rates/">state income tax rate</a></li>
<li>Highest <a href="https://www.redfin.com/blog/most-expensive-states-to-buy-a-house/">median home price</a></li>
<li>Highest <a href="https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-gas-tax-rates-2024/">gasoline tax</a></li>
<li>Highest number of federal <a href="https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/welfare-recipients-by-state">welfare recipients</a></li>
<li>Highest amount of <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-states-blame-most-nearly-400-million-unemployment-fraud">unemployment benefit fraud</a></li>
<li>Highest number of <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/">illegal immigrants</a></li>
<li>Highest percentage of <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/map-states-most-high-school-dropouts-1872310">high school dropouts</a></li>
<li>Highest rates of <a href="https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/human-trafficking-statistics-by-state">human trafficking</a></li>
<li>Highest <a href="https://247wallst.com/special-report/2024/02/13/this-is-the-state-with-the-most-homeless-people-every-state-ranked/">homeless population</a></li>
<li>Highest level of <a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/pension/comparative_view/table/">state pension shortfall</a></li>
<li>Highest level of <a href="https://www.consumeraffairs.com/movers/states-people-are-moving-to-and-from.html">net exodus</a> from the state</li>
<li>Highest <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/630090/states-with-the-average-electricity-price-for-the-residential-sector-in-the-us/">cost for kilowatt hours</a> in the continental U.S.</li>
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While many folks have wryly referred to California as, “the most expensive weather in the world,” an increasing number of people are rethinking that cost — especially when the weather itself is now regularly accompanied by wildfires, mudslides, and earthquakes.
The <a href="https://hgbr.org/californias-economic-challenges-a-growing-exodus-and-policy-concerns/">Hampton Global Business Review</a> concludes, “The allure of California’s beaches and innovation hubs might not be enough to counteract the growing disenchantment among its residents and business leaders.”
While all of this is more than sobering, contrary to the popular narrative, the untenable situation in which the state now finds itself cannot be blamed solely or even largely on the handful of people who have occupied the top leadership roles or even the few thousand in mid-tier management/political roles for the state. To be sure, many of those people have largely been far worse than feckless; they have been actively counterproductive — perhaps even maleficent. But blaming leadership is like blaming guns for shooting homicides. They could not have performed this disservice without the active support of the California voters.
Time and time again, California voters continue to check the box for more of the same people who continue to inflict damage on them for decades now. But more importantly, they knowingly do so. No objective observer can credibly argue that Californians have been fooled or misled by their leaders or the outrageous decisions they have made, or failed to make.
The great scholar, author, and life-long California resident Dr. Victor Davis Hanson has for years <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/28121811-the-decline-and-fall-of-california">detailed</a> the disastrous results of many of these decisions — from eliminating fire-preventing forest management, to not only failing to build appropriate dams but blowing up existing dams and eliminating reservoirs, to promoting unchecked and mass illegal immigration.
There was likely no more clarifying moment of truth on this point than when Governor Gavin Newsom faced a recall. His record was damning. There was the bungled and hypocritical mismanagement of the COVID virus response — complete with vaccine shortages, maskless French Laundry dinners with friends, and arbitrary business closure guidelines, a budget deficit that was more than double his own projection, and most importantly, the ignoring or exacerbation of most of the long list of the aforementioned maladies destroying the state.
Not only did the recall effort fail miserably, with Newsom receiving a convincing approval mandate of 62% of the vote, but he was then solidly re-elected in 2022 with nearly that same margin. California voters, no doubt painfully aware of all of these issues essentially said, “Yes, yes, yes! Give us more of this!”
But suppose for just a moment that Newsom had been recalled, that perhaps he had skewered one of the sacred cows big enough to motivate his ouster. Perhaps he drove a diesel car, or contended that there is something wrong about allowing a 250lb biological male athlete to compete with women, or suggested that maybe the unpunished shoplifting limit should be reduced from $950 to say $500, or publicly stated that illegal immigrants are not entitled to the same rights as U.S. citizens. Who would voters have suggested take his place? It almost certainly would have been another entity not dissimilar to Newsom in any significant way.
All of this is exacerbated by the fact that so many logically thinking, hard-working, patriotic Americans are leaving California if they can. With each passing year, the state is left with an increasingly left-leaning voter base — and they like it that way.  Thus, it is folly to believe that California’s ills can be solved as simply as replacing a few, key incompetent leaders. California’s failed leadership is not nearly as problematic as its failed follower-ship. And that is a far harder nut to crack.
Brian Wilson made a career writing songs about the abundant fun, fun, fun available in the Golden State. Were he with us today, begrudgingly or not, he would have to admit that clearly, daddy took the T-Bird away.
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Greg Salsbury, Ph.D. is former president of Western Colorado University and Board of Advisor member for <a href="https://starrs.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">STARRS.US</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The global economy is no longer years, months, or weeks away from the artificial intelligence revolution.
From <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2021/12/metas-new-ai-system-tackles-harmful-content/">Meta</a> utilizing it for social media content moderation to <a href="https://about.starbucks.com/press/2025/meet-green-dot-assist-starbucks-generative-ai-powered-coffeehouse-companion/#:~:text=Green%20Dot%20Assist%20is%20a,in%20delivering%20exceptional%20customer%20service.">Starbucks</a> employing AI to assist baristas with everyday tasks, AI is here. For some job-seekers, AI&#8217;s role in a company could even be affecting them during the hiring process, selecting some candidates over others without any human intervention.
But can be trusted to select the most qualified candidates for a job opening? New research suggests it can&#8217;t — because some of the most popular AI language models used by many companies in the hiring process could be discriminating against certain candidates based on race and sex.
A <a href="https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10922">study</a> published earlier this month by independent researchers Adam Karvonen and Samuel Marks shows that the &#8220;leading commercial &#8230; and open-source [AI language] models&#8221; used by major companies insert &#8220;significant racial and gender biases&#8221; in the hiring process. The research found that AI language models such as Chat GPT-4o, Claude 4 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Flash, along with open-source models Gemma-2 27B, Gemma-3, and Mistral-24B, &#8220;consistently favor Black over White candidates and female over male candidates across all tested models and scenarios.&#8221;
Karvonen told The Daily Wire that their research should raise red flags for companies using AI to hire employees. He said that it&#8217;s possible for companies to add their own &#8220;safeguards&#8221; to prevent AI from discriminating against people simply based on their race or sex, but added, &#8220;Since companies generally do not disclose the details of their internal safeguards, we cannot independently verify that these systems are fair and robust.&#8221;
&#8220;Our work shows that standard resume anonymization may not be a complete solution,&#8221; Karvonen said. &#8220;For example, we found that models would infer a candidate&#8217;s race from their college affiliation and become biased as a result. Even if you remove obvious identifiers like names, bias can still creep in through other background details. This is another reason why a technical fix like ours, which prevents the model from processing these concepts at all, can be more robust than simply hiding surface-level information.&#8221;
The study found that asking AI models to consider &#8220;real-world contextual details&#8221; and to focus on &#8220;a highly selective hiring process&#8221; can cause the AI to become biased and discriminate against white people, especially white men, who received &#8220;up to 12% differences in interview rates.&#8221;
&#8220;Even if everything else is the same — the resume is the same, the experience is the same — stereotypically white names are less likely to pass through the interview process,&#8221; Jason Hausenloy, an independent AI safety researcher, told The Daily Wire.
Hausenloy added that the AI language models favored minority job candidates, even if a company&#8217;s diversity pledges and statements were completely removed from the scenario.
&#8220;Just the very act of making the hiring scenarios more realistic meant that they are more likely to be biased,&#8221; he said.
The Daily Wire reached out to the companies running the AI language models highlighted in the study, which include Google, OpenAI, Claude, and Mistral. An OpenAI spokesman told The Daily Wire that &#8220;AI tools can be useful in hiring, but they can also be biased. They should be used to help, not replace, human decision-making in important choices like job eligibility.&#8221;
&#8220;OpenAI has safety teams dedicated to researching and reducing bias, and other risks, in our models,&#8221; the spokesman added. &#8220;Bias is an important, industry-wide problem and we use a multi-prong approach, including researching best practices for adjusting training data and prompts to result in less biased results, improving accuracy of content filters and refining automated and human monitoring systems. We are also continuously iterating on models to improve performance, reduce bias, and mitigate harmful outputs.”
None of the other companies responded to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request to comment.
It&#8217;s not just a few mega corporations using AI to weed out job candidates. A <a href="https://www.resumebuilder.com/7-in-10-companies-will-use-ai-in-the-hiring-process-in-2025-despite-most-saying-its-biased/">study</a> published by Resume Builder last October found that half of all companies are already using AI in the hiring process and predicts that this will increase to 70% by the end of 2025. The study surveyed 948 business leaders who work at a company with more than 21 employees.
&#8220;Today, 82% of companies use AI to review resumes, while 40% employ AI chatbots to communicate with candidates. About 23% use AI to conduct interviews, and 64% apply AI to review candidate assessments,&#8221; Resume Builder reported. &#8220;Additionally, 28% of companies use AI for onboarding new hires, and 42% scan social media or personal websites as part of the hiring process. Only 0.2% of companies report not using AI in their hiring practices.&#8221;
Hausenloy told The Daily Wire that no one really knows what could be causing these leading AI language models to be discriminating against people based on race and sex.
&#8220;I would very strongly suspect that the companies are not trying to optimize this behavior,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think OpenAI is saying, &#8216;You must be biased against white males.'&#8221;
&#8220;We actually don&#8217;t know why this happens, but it is a consistent finding,&#8221; Hausenloy added.
He said that there are some &#8220;promising&#8221; findings in the new study, adding that companies could easily fix the AI&#8217;s tendency to discriminate against white men.
&#8220;You can use certain technical techniques to remove the concept of race and bias from the language models if you edit the internal concepts within the models,&#8221; Hausenloy said.
AI discrimination in hiring, however, could be part of a larger issue with the new technology.
The Center for AI Safety <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QAzSj24Fp0O6GfkskmnULmI1Hmx7k_EJ/view">published a study</a> earlier this year that could shed some more light on why these AI language models are opting for blatant discrimination. According to the findings, AI models value certain people more than others, preferring people from Africa and the Middle East over people in Europe and the United States.
&#8220;We’ve found as AIs get smarter, they develop their own coherent value systems,&#8221; wrote Dan Hendrycks, the director for the Center for AI Safety. &#8220;For example they value lives in Pakistan &gt; India &gt; China &gt; US. These are not just random biases, but internally consistent values that shape their behavior, with many implications for AI alignment.&#8221;
&#8220;Internally, AIs have values for everything. This often implies shocking/undesirable preferences. For example, we find AIs put a price on human life itself and systematically value some human lives more than others,&#8221; he added.
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American car manufacturing giant General Motors is set to invest $4 billion in the United States, moving production of three vehicles from Mexico.
GM plans to move production of full-size SUVs and light-duty pickups from Mexico to its Orion Assembly Plant in Michigan, a plant that had recently been repurposed to focus on electric trucks until demand for EVs dropped, The Detroit News <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2025/06/10/gm-plans-4-billion-push-to-move-production-from-mexico-to-u-s/84135790007/">reported</a> on Tuesday. GM&#8217;s gas-powered Equinox will be made in Fairfax, Kansas, and the gas-powered Blazer will be made in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The auto company&#8217;s major shift back is set to take place through 2027 and will move the assembly of more than two million vehicles to the United States, GM said, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/gm-to-invest-4-billion-in-us-manufacturing-plants-amid-tariffs.html">CNBC</a>.
“We believe the future of transportation will be driven by American innovation and manufacturing expertise,” GM CEO Mary Barra said. “Today’s announcement demonstrates our ongoing commitment to build vehicles in the U.S. and to support American jobs. We&#8217;re focused on giving customers choice and offering a broad range of vehicles they love.”
The announcement, which comes after President Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on foreign auto imports, was celebrated by the Trump administration.
“No president has taken a stronger interest in reviving America’s once-great auto industry than President Trump, and GM’s investment announcement builds on trillions of dollars in other historic investment commitments to Make in America,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said, according to The Detroit News.
Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also praised GM&#8217;s decision, saying it would bring &#8220;more auto manufacturing back home to Michigan, protecting thousands of good-paying, union auto jobs.&#8221;
The future of the Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico, which currently produces the Equinox and the Blazer, remains uncertain. The production of the Blazer is set to fully move to the United States, while some Equinoxes will still be made at the Mexico plant for other markets, CNBC reported.
Last month, GM said it was also cutting back on production at a truck plant in Ontario, Canada, due to Trump&#8217;s auto tariff, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/general-motors-to-cut-back-on-manufacturing-at-canada-plant-over-trump-tariff?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=General+Motors+To+Cut+Back+On+Manufacturing+At+Canada+Plant+Over+Trump+Tariff">reported</a>. The auto giant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/general-motors-to-cut-back-on-manufacturing-at-canada-plant-over-trump-tariff?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=General+Motors+To+Cut+Back+On+Manufacturing+At+Canada+Plant+Over+Trump+Tariff">said</a> in April that it planned to ramp up production of light-duty trucks at its assembly plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which promises to add more temporary jobs and increase overtime opportunities for employees.

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Job growth for the month of May again beat expectations as 139,000 jobs were added to the American economy, and the unemployment rate remained steady, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
The <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, released Friday, found that the private sector continued to add jobs while government employment declined. The unemployment rate did not change from April, remaining at 4.2%.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt celebrated the news, saying it reflected President Donald Trump’s successful economic policies. 
“President Trump’s America First Economic Agenda has created a BOOMING economy — jobs are up, unemployment is down, wages are increasing, and inflation is dead,” she <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1930980549906063803">said</a> on social media. “More than 139,000 good jobs were added to the private sector in May, all accounted for by American-born workers. Americans should continue to Trust in President Trump, who continues to beat expectations.”
The 139,000 job growth was more than the 125,000 that had been projected by the Dow Jones estimate. Last month, job growth also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/solid-april-jobs-report-shows-govt-employment-drops-as-private-sector-growth-beats-expectations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exceeded expectations</a>, although the increase was revised down by 30,000 jobs in the latest report. 
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Industries that saw the most growth were health care (62,000), leisure and hospitality (48,000), and social assistance (16,000). Federal government employment declined by 22,000. 
The Bureau of Labor Statistics added that there was little change in mining, oil and gas extraction, construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, and the financial activities industries from the previous month. 
At the same time, average hourly pay increased 15 cents to $36.24 last month. 
“The small business economy is growing and the private economy is growing. This is exactly what Donald Trump wanted to do for reversing everything that Biden had done,” <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/trump-effect-higher-pay-for-american-workers/">said </a>Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz in response to the report. “It’s so good to see that we’re actually creating private economy jobs again.”
The stock markets rose after the job report was released, with the S&amp;P 500, Nasdaq Composite, and Dow Jones Industrial Average rising by more than one percent.
&#8220;GREAT JOB NUMBERS, STOCK MARKET UP BIG! AT THE SAME TIME, BILLIONS POURING IN FROM TARIFFS!!!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114636826069773755">posted</a> on Truth Social Friday morning.
In a series of other posts, Trump lauded the economy and urged the Federal Reserve to take action to cut interest rates.
&#8220;AMERICA IS HOT! SIX MONTHS AGO IT WAS COLD AS ICE! BORDER IS CLOSED, PRICES ARE DOWN. WAGES ARE UP!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114636535351943737">wrote</a>.
In another post, he said that the Fed&#8217;s decision not to cut rates was costing the United States &#8220;a fortune.&#8221;
&#8220;If &#8216;Too Late&#8217; at the Fed would CUT, we would greatly reduce interest rates, long and short, on debt that is coming due. Biden went mostly short term,&#8221; Trump added in another <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114636734825372318">post</a>. &#8220;There is virtually no inflation (anymore), but if it should come back, RAISE &#8216;RATE&#8217; TO COUNTER. Very Simple!!! He is costing our Country a fortune. Borrowing costs should be MUCH LOWER!!!&#8221;

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‘America Is Hot’: Job Growth Again Beats Expectations

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The United States economy added more jobs than expected in April, while government positions continued to decline, according to the April jobs report.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_05022025.htm">report</a> on Friday, showing that jobs had increased in April by 177,000, much more than the 133,000 that had been projected by the Dow Jones. At the same time, federal jobs declined by around 9,000 while the healthcare, transportation and warehousing, financial activities, and social assistance industries all saw growth. 
&#8220;This is the second month in a row where the jobs report has beat expectations,&#8221; <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/jobs-boom-more-americans-working-for-higher-pay/">said</a> White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. &#8220;Wages are continuing to rise and labor force participation is increasing. This is exactly what we want to see. More Americans working for higher wages. More winning is on the way!”
The healthcare industry added 51,000 jobs, including 22,000 in hospitals and 21,000 in ambulatory services, while transportation and warehousing increased by 29,000, according to the report. The 177,000 jobs were lower than the 185,000 jobs that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-cant-lose-march-job-growth-vastly-outpaces-expectations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were added</a> in March, which also beat job growth expectations. 
Unemployment remained at 4.2%, and the labor force participation rate changed little. This was the first jobs report released after President Donald Trump announced &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; tariffs. Most of those tariffs have been lowered to 10% across the board, with a 145% tariff on China.
The markets responded positively to the jobs report, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&amp;P 500, and the Nasdaq all jumping more than 1%.
Responding to the news, the White House&#8217;s official &#8220;Rapid Response&#8221; X account celebrated the job gains made in the private sector and the decline in government employment. According to the White House, more than 95% of the jobs added to the economy under President Donald Trump have come from the private sector, while around 25% of the jobs created during President Joe Biden&#8217;s final two years were government jobs.
&#8220;Federal employment has already shrank by 26,000 jobs under Trump after ballooning by 139,000 jobs in Biden’s last two years. President Trump is right-sizing government while unleashing private-sector growth,&#8221; the account posted.
Trump and his top donor, Elon Musk, have pushed for a variety of cuts across the federal workforce — from the IRS to the State Department — through Musk&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency project. Some of the cuts have come through firings, while other departments have pushed federal employees to accept buyouts to vacate their jobs.
The White House also celebrated the job gains made among native-born Americans during President Trump&#8217;s first three months in office.
&#8220;Biden relied on government jobs and foreign-born workers. Native-born workers have fueled 97.6% of job growth under President Trump,&#8221; the White House posted. &#8220;In Biden’s final two years, native-born Americans accounted for only HALF (56.9%) of employment gains.&#8221;

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Solid April Jobs Report Shows Govt Employment Drops As Private Sector Growth Beats Expectations

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A Labor Department program designed to train 16- to 24-year-olds to join the workforce spends more per person annually than Ivy League colleges, but participants wind up making minimum wage on average — raising questions about whether it should continue to exist.
The Job Corps pays teenage runaways, high school dropouts, and twentysomething ex-cons to live in dormitories and receive their GEDs and vocational training. The national cost per graduate was $188,000, with the average graduate staying 13.5 months. Of more than 110 campuses, the 10 least efficient averaged a cost of $385,000 per graduate. Job Corps participants earn $16,695 per year on average after leaving the program, according to new government data.
Nearly $2 billion in federal taxpayer money is spent annually on residential Job Corps campuses, a boon for the for-profit contractors who run them. But the dismal statistics about the program’s efficacy have never been fully public until the Trump administration released a <a href="https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/eta/eta20250425" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Transparency Report”</a> last week.
The Job Corps has only a 32% graduation rate, though statistics have typically been calculated using a misleading definition of “graduate,” which bumped the number up slightly to 39%. Of about 30,000 enrollees in the 2023-24 school year, roughly 10,000 were expelled for misconduct, 5,000 were booted for absconding, and 5,000 dropped out for other reasons. The average cost per enrollee, including those who dropped out or were expelled, was $50,000, with an average stay of 7.5 months, working out to $80,000 per year.
The Old Dominion Job Corps campus in Monroe, Virginia, had 95 enrollees in 2023, at a cost of $137,000 each. Only 17 successfully completed the program, amounting to a cost of $764,000 per graduate. Old Dominion is operated by ODLE Management Group LLC, which runs several campuses.
The Daily Wire reported this month that thousands of young people have been the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/multi-billion-dollar-federal-job-corps-breeding-ground-rape-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">victims of assault</a> and other crimes at Job Corps campuses, including a transgender-identifying girl who was assigned to live with a 23-year-old man who was charged with raping her.
A decade of oversight by government auditors and news media has found that the program attracts criminals and that some staff look the other way to avoid expelling members, which would lead to lost revenue — or negative attention — which could jeopardize the program.
At the Old Dominion campus with 95 enrollees, the campus officially reported 46 disciplinary infractions. At the Gary campus in San Marcos, Texas, there were 633 disciplinary incidents among 1,191 enrollees. The Oconaluftee campus in Cherokee, North Carolina, had 205 infractions over 162 enrollees, amounting to more than one per person.
The latest quarter of data showed that 72% of graduates were placed in jobs, though past investigations have found some Job Corps centers cooking the books on those numbers. The Gadsden campus in Alabama reported a 40% job placement rate, while the Gulfport campus in Mississippi claimed 100%.
Job Corps participants were typically not capable of remaining employed for long. After exiting the program, fewer than half had a job a few months out and were still working that job at the one-year mark.
<div id="attachment_900761" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-900761" class="size-large wp-image-900761" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/jobcorps1200-1024x573.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="573" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/jobcorps1200-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/jobcorps1200-300x168.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/jobcorps1200-768x430.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/jobcorps1200.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Job Corps participants brawl / Youtube</div>
YouTube is full of videos of Job Corps “students” viciously fighting each other, and participants interviewed by The Daily Wire described a culture that is racially charged, where dysfunction dominates, and “snitches” are physically assaulted. Democrats have moved to lower behavioral standards even further by introducing a bill making it harder to expel students.
Contractors pay recruiting bonuses for finding prospects, and participants are paid to take part in the program in addition to covering their room, board, and medical. One recent graduate told The Daily Wire that contractors conceal the program&#8217;s failure to keep the cash coming, and that many participants wind up working in menial jobs they could have done without the expensive training.
“A lot of reasons they allow dangerous behavior to go covered up, as I imagine you may know, has to do with the entire program being a numbers game. The program also fails to complete its actual goal, which is to help at-risk youth find jobs,” he said. &#8220;I can&#8217;t think of a student I knew that has a job in the trade that they trained for. They have jobs in fast food.&#8221;
&#8220;A lot of these kids, their mentality is like middle schoolers. I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s equivalent to an inner city high school but with dorms. Because it&#8217;s with dorms, anything like fights or sexual assaults could happen at any time. Something&#8217;s gonna happen every day. Not everyone is a gangbanger but the vast majority are,&#8221; he added.
<div id="attachment_913287" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-913287" class="size-full wp-image-913287" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2087316292.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="528" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2087316292.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2087316292-300x155.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2087316292-768x396.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />The women&#8217;s dormitory at the Glenmont Job Corps Thursday March 15, 2012. (Photo by John Carl D&#8217;Annibale/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)</div>
GEDs are already available at no cost to young adults from most school districts, and unions often offer free training in the trades, making Job Corps’ value proposition dubious — though the nearly $2 billion a year spent on the program means that contractors will lobby hard to preserve their cash cow.
As part of its Department of Government Efficiency initiatives, the Trump administration may recommend significantly cutting Job Corps’ budget next year, a source familiar with the matter told The Daily Wire.
On April 1, the Labor Department said new enrollees will <a href="https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/dol/dol20250401" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not be accepted</a> at two Maine campuses. The Penobscot campus cost $91,000 per enrollee and had a 41% graduation rate, while the Loring campus cost $42,000 per enrollee, with only 38% completing the program.
“Taxpayers deserve to know the facts and outcomes of their multi-billion-dollar investment,” Labor Department Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Lori Frazier Bearden said in a statement. “This report underscores the department’s commitment to program transparency and accountability – both of which are essential for effective oversight, informed policymaking, and maintaining public trust.”
As The Daily Wire previously reported, eligibility requirements say that only people on welfare or living in poverty are eligible for the Job Corps, that refugees and non-citizen parolees are eligible, and that “no individual shall be denied enrollment in Job Corps solely on the basis of contact with the criminal justice system, except for the disqualifying felony convictions of murder…child abuse, or a crime involving rape or sexual assault.”
The program requires that applicants not be able to read at higher than an eighth grade level, saying they must be “unable to compute or solve problems… at a level necessary to function on the job, in the individual’s family, or in society,” or he must be homeless, a runaway, a high school dropout, or a victim of sex trafficking.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/multi-billion-dollar-federal-job-corps-breeding-ground-rape-crime">Multi-Billion Dollar Federal ‘Job Corps’ Is A Breeding Ground For Rape And Crime, Data Show</a>

Job Corps campus

Federal ‘Job Corps’ Spends Up To $764K Per Graduate. Participants Go On To Earn $17K Annually.

In 2023, actors and writers went on strike as fears over artificial intelligence’s rapid development gripped Tinseltown.
The entertainment workers picketed for weeks, demanding guardrails around AI’s use in Hollywood. They got their wish when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) agreed with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to put new rules into place.
The fears are understandable, especially for those whose jobs are centered on writing scripts or editing videos. But for Jonathan Yunger, AI can be a major boost for Hollywood — the talented people who work there just have to embrace it and learn how to master it.
“Hollywood is old school. They’re scared about being replaced, but I truly believe that, and I’ve been saying this from the beginning, AI is here and it’s not going anywhere,” Yunger told The Daily Wire. “We have to learn to work together.”
Yunger doesn’t just express that belief. He’s putting his career behind it. Yunger — who’s worked on blockbuster films such as “Expendables,” “Hellboy,” “Hitman’s Bodyguard,” and “Rambo” — co-founded <a href="https://www.arcanalabs.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arcana Labs</a>, a new AI production studio that he believes will help lead the way in revolutionizing the way creative content is made.
Many in Hollywood fear that if AI continues to move at the pace tech whizzes expect it to, it won’t be long before it’s capable of producing any type of creative content without the countless hours of dozens of writers and actors. Yunger has a different perspective on Hollywood’s use of AI, saying that creative content will always need “real actors” and “real storytellers.”
“You go to ChatGPT and ask it to tell a joke, it’s not going to tell you a funny joke,” he said. “If you tell it to write a story that will make you cry, it’s not going to make you cry. You still need human involvement. You still need the human element.”
“So Arcana is geared more towards artist-driven AI rather than AI-driven art,” he added.
Arcana’s capabilities were introduced to the world on February 25, when President Donald Trump posted a satirical <a href="https://www.instagram.com/realdonaldtrump/reel/DGhfpgHsOg6/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> about the remaking of Gaza. The AI-generated video that took social media by storm that day was made by someone who was testing Arcana’s tools, according to Yunger. Now, the company based in Los Angeles has $5.5 million in funding and <a href="https://deadline.com/2025/04/ai-content-platform-arcana-labs-raises-5-5-million-1236369763/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officially launched</a> its production studio earlier this week with SEMCAP AI and co-CIOs Walter Buckley and Cyrus Vandrevala jumping on board.
“It was around the time I was doing ‘Hellboy’ — I wasn’t using any AI in ‘Hellboy’ — but me and my co-founder Hank Hoffman got hipped to generative AI at the time,” Yunger told The Daily Wire in his first interview since the launch of Arcana AI’s production studio. “And I was like, ‘Wow, it’s amazing.’”
Yunger said that AI’s capabilities to immediately turn words into images were “like the ultimate high” for a producer, but he added that he soon grew frustrated with the new tool because it took “hundreds of generations” to get AI to generate the image he had in his mind.
“This is amazing tech, but how do you incorporate this into a workflow if you’re either making a movie or making a comic book, or whatever it is, and you’re on a deadline?”
Out of this question, Arcana AI was born, and Yunger and his team believe it will help kickstart the “future of filmmaking.” Arcana also offers tools for small businesses, photographers, videographers, and everyone in between. Content creators and companies have already begun extensively using AI to produce everything from short films and memes to marketing campaigns and advertisements. Even Jeremy’s Razors, which shares common ownership with The Daily Wire, released a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzMXJct5WQ8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fully AI-generated commercial</a> earlier this year.
As AI continues to grow, a top priority for Arcana is to ensure that creators have a place to develop their skills with AI without fearing censorship. Yunger said that many other AI programs don’t allow creators to make scenes that include violence, blood, horror, or nudity. He argued that since AI is going to play a major role in the future of artistic content, it’s vital to allow artists the freedom to create content without fear of censorship.
“Imagine if they said, &#8216;No more nudity in every single art museum in the world.’ Or imagine if the Renaissance was censored, or imagine if every movie studio said, ‘Okay guys, only PG-13 movies from now on,’” Yunger said. “That is an attack on our liberty.”
Striking a balance between creative liberty and inappropriate content is an age-old question that AI is also facing. One of the biggest concerns is how AI is all-too-often used for sexual predation, such as revenge porn and “deepfake” nudity.
As AI has progressed, so has the ability of bad actors to create realistic images and videos that show the faces of real people who gave no consent for their likeness to be remade through artificial intelligence. The top targets of this unethical use of AI are celebrities, women, and girls, whose faces are attached to pornographic images. Often, the victims are underage girls who learn that one or more of their classmates used a “nudify” program to generate naked photos of them, as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/opinion/deepfake-sex-videos.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The New York Times last year.
When asked about the troubling trend of AI being used for revenge porn or other illegal activities, Yunger said that Arcana can both defend free speech and stamp out unethical uses of its studio. Arcana’s security protocols warn users if they type a potentially illegal prompt into the AI generator and identify illegal content and those who create it.
“We have technology deployed that basically stamps every image made on Arcana with the username in an invisible watermark,” he told The Daily Wire. The security system allows Arcana to quickly identify illegal content and track down who is behind it.
Creators on Arcana are free to make what they want, but Yunger added that if something gets sent to the police, “We will find you very, very quickly.”
Excitement and fear around AI will remain as the technology affects more industries, jobs, and people, and Yunger acknowledged that “at the end of the day, things shift,” and those in Hollywood will have to keep up with the changes AI brings just as previous generations adapted to the computer revolutionizing the way people work.
“I don’t think AI will replace people,” Yunger added. “I think people who use AI will replace people who don’t.”

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The monthly jobs report released Friday showed that 228,000 jobs were added to the economy in March, strongly outpacing the growth predicted by analysts. 
The Bureau of Labor Statistics <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> found that transportation and warehousing, healthcare, social assistance, and retail were the largest growth areas. The employment rate remained relatively steady from February, ticking up to 4.2% from 4.1%. 
March job growth rose significantly above the 140,000 increase forecasted by the Dow Jones. The rise was also much larger than the 158,000 average 12-month increase, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
The report showed that 54,000 jobs were added in healthcare, 24,000 in social assistance, 23,000 in transportation and warehousing, and 24,000 in retail. The jump in retail jobs was aided by more than 10,000 grocery workers <a href="https://apnews.com/article/king-soopers-grocery-strike-ends-denver-e3195f8b00754ec75699ae43d83aeac6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ending</a> a strike in February. 
The previous 12-month average for transportation and warehousing was a monthly gain of 12,000. 
One sector that saw a notable decline was federal government jobs, which fell by 4,000. That number doesn’t include workers who are on paid leave or getting severance pay, the Bureau of Labor Statistics noted. In February, there was an 11,000 decline in government jobs. Those cuts came after the Trump administration moved to fire thousands of workers through its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project. 
The news was celebrated by President Donald Trump, who said the numbers showed that his economic policies were working. 
“GREAT JOB NUMBERS, FAR BETTER THAN EXPECTED. IT’S ALREADY WORKING. HANG TOUGH, WE CAN’T LOSE!!!” President Donald Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114279844695644343" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Truth Social. 
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the numbers showed that the “Golden Age of America is on its way!”
“The economy is starting to roar with a strong 228,000 jobs added in the month of March — well ahead of the market&#8217;s expectation,” said Leavitt. “There was also a sharp increase in transportation, construction, and warehousing employment. The President&#8217;s push to onshore jobs here in the United States is working.&#8221; 
The strong jobs report comes amid economic uncertainty after Trump imposed widespread tariffs on countries across the globe, leading to a tumbling stock market. Trump has said that his economic policies will increase domestic production and entice foreign investment in American industry.

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‘We Can’t Lose’: March Job Growth Vastly Outpaces Expectations

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The Trump administration celebrated the increase in manufacturing jobs during President Donald Trump’s first full month in office as the February job report was released on Friday. 
The <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that 151,000 jobs were added to the economy in February, including 10,000 new manufacturing jobs. Federal government jobs declined by 10,000 as the Trump administration has pushed to slash the size of the government bureaucracy. 
“In one month under President Trump, the American economy is soaring back to greatness after the economic calamity left by Joe Biden,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/manufacturing-is-roaring-back-under-president-donald-j-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “The manufacturing industry is already rebounding as there were 9,000 new auto jobs created — the most auto jobs added in 15 months!”
“Under President Trump, the private sector is leading the way — 93% of the job gains in February were in the private sector. This is great news for American workers and families. The Trump Administration will continue to work hard to implement pro-growth policies and push Congress to enact the Trump Economic Agenda,” she added. 
The White House said that the report was a “swift turnaround” from the Biden administration, saying that 111,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in Biden’s final year in office. 
The report found that most growth was in the health care, transportation, warehouse, social assistance, and financial industries. The unemployment rate was at around 4.1%, a slight uptick from January. 
The overall job group was 19,000 less than the 170,000 increase that had been predicted by the Dow Jones.
The most notable decline was in federal government jobs, which comes as Trump&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency has pushed cuts across the sprawling federal bureaucracy.
Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni noted that job growth increased most among native-born Americans.
“​​Well, that was a fast reversal &#8211; for the 1st time in 15 months, annual job growth among native-born Americans exceeded that of foreign-born workers; still a long way to go, but a very good start,” he said. 
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Well, that was a fast reversal &#8211; for the 1st time in 15 months, annual job growth among native-born Americans exceeded that of foreign-born workers; still a long way to go, but a very good start: <a href="https://t.co/VNFuM3eHAP">pic.twitter.com/VNFuM3eHAP</a>
— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1898016921083052416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The report from the bureau added that revisions had been made to the previous months&#8217; jobs reports, including an upward revision of 16,000 in December and a downward revision of 18,000 in January.

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Trump Admin Celebrates ‘Swift Turnaround’ After Jobs Report Released

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The Labor Department issued its January jobs report on Friday, revealing that the last month of the Biden presidency was another instance of the Biden administration falling short and that the revised monthly average for jobs in all of 2024 had been overstated.
One hundred forty-three thousand jobs were added in January, which fell short of economic forecasts for the month, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/07/business/jobs-report-january-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a>, adding, “The revised monthly average for all of 2024 is 166,000 jobs, less than previously thought. With upward revisions to November and December, January looks like a step down.” Economists had set expectations of 175,000 new jobs in January, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/harryholzer/2025/02/07/first-jobs-report-of-2025-labor-market-still-solid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes</a> reported.
“Today’s jobs report reveals the Biden economy was far worse than anyone thought, and underscores the necessity of President Trump’s pro-growth policies,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/02/statement-from-the-press-secretary-on-januarys-jobs-reports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> in response to the report. “During his first weeks in office, President Trump declared a national energy emergency to Make America Energy Dominant Again, pledged to cut 10 regulations for every new regulatory action, and outlined a plan to deliver the largest tax cut in history for hardworking Americans. President Trump is delivering on his promise to restore our broken economy, revive small business optimism, create jobs, and ignite a new Golden Age for America.”
Biden presiding over the growth of inflation was a major factor in Donald Trump’s election to the presidency in November. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) <a href="https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/one-year-later-even-president-biden-admits-the-inflation-reduction-act-failed-to-lower-costs-for-americans">noted</a> in August 2023, one year after Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act was passed, that since the start of the Biden-Harris administration, the cost of groceries had soared roughly 20%, gas prices were up almost 62%, natural gas prices had risen more than 40%, and the Congressional Budget Office expected the launch prices of drugs to increase.
“To me, that is the lasting legacy and differentiator between the two administrations,” Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at SMBC Nikko Securities, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/19/charting-the-biden-economy-deeply-unpopular-despite-growth-and-jobs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. “Inflation was two-and-a-half times higher under President Biden than it was under President Trump. That essentially was the key catalyst for the return to Trump’s policy, which was one of very good growth and low and stable inflation.”

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January Jobs Report: Biden Fell Short Of Expectations. Again.

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The rate of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labor participation</a> among native-born Americans has slumped while the number of immigrants in the workforce has surged, a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) indicates.
The drop among native-born Americans was pronounced among men within their prime working years, the CIS study explains.
“The share of working-age (16 to 64) U.S.-born men not in the labor force increased from 11 percent in April 1960 to 17 percent in April 2000, and to 22 percent in April 2024,” the report states. “Among ‘prime-age’ U.S.-born men (25 to 54), the group most likely to work, the share not in the labor force was 4 percent in April 1960, 9 percent in 2000 and 12 percent in 2024.”
CIS found that 45 million native-born American men and women between the ages of 16 and 64 were not in the labor force as of April, marking an increase of 8.5 million since 2000. It also accounted for the aging of the population, explaining that “even the share of younger U.S.-born men (25 to 34) not in the labor force has increased over the last six decades.”
“Focusing only on U.S.-born men without a bachelor’s degree and excluding teenagers still shows the share (20 to 64) not in the labor force increased from 7 percent in 1960 to 16 percent in 2000, and to 22 percent in 2024,” the CIS study says.
The number of American-born men who are not in the labor force surged by a whopping 13.2 million from 1960 to 2024, CIS points out. Immigrant men’s participation in the labor force surged by 14.1 million during the same period of time, however.
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The lead author behind the report, Steven Camarota, contended that an over reliance on immigrant labor has harmed American workers.
“Relying on immigrant workers has allowed our country to ignore the decades-long decline in labor force participation,” he asserted. “Reducing immigration would cause wages to rise, incentivizing work and compelling policymakers to undertake much-needed reforms in welfare and disability programs.”

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