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US hiring turned sluggish one year into Trump’s second term
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The US labour market added about 584,000 jobs over the past 12 months, the slowest pace of job growth since 2020.
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Tony Romm and Ben Casselman
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WASHINGTON – The US economy added more than half a million new jobs during President Donald Trump’s first year since returning to office, a dramatic slowdown in hiring that underscored how his agenda may be exacerbating some of the strains facing American workers and employers.
The full tally from the Labour Department that arrived on Jan 9 showed subdued job growth till the final month of 2025. The White House heralded the figures anyway, as Mr Trump and his aides looked to assuage an increasingly restive public about the trajectory of the economy.
