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AI & Jobs BLS reported 29,000 jobs for September on October 2, against a consensus near 84,000 to 90,000, with unemployment at 4.2%. Financial activities lost 7,000 and is down 129,000 since May 2025, and July and August were cut by 60,000 between them.
AI & Jobs BLS's August JOLTS put US openings at 7.079M, down 256K, with layoffs at 1.64M and a 1.0% rate. Underneath, finance shows 353K openings against 110K hires, and information shows 123K openings against 44K hires.
AI & Jobs BLS published its 2025-35 Employment Projections on August 27: 5.9 million net new jobs over the decade, total employment from 170.3 million to 176.2 million, growth of 3.5% against 10.9% in the prior decade. Office and administrative support falls 4.0% and sheds 752,100 jobs, the largest decline of any major occupational group.
AI & Jobs The BLS reported a 23,000-job decline for July with unemployment at 4.1%. Two days earlier Challenger counted the fewest announced cuts in two years. Both are accurate, and the gap between them sits on the hiring side.
AI & Jobs BLS May report: 172,000 jobs added against an 80,000 consensus, unemployment steady at 4.3% — capping a week in which AI led layoff citations for a third straight month.
AI & Jobs BLS's June 2 print pegged April openings at 7.62M — the highest since mid-2024, a 731K jump, the biggest single-month rise since 2021 — while hires fell 419K to 5.12M. Postings aren't turning into offers.
AI & Jobs On May 1, the day after Mag-4 earnings, Tesla's former VP of People wrote in Fortune that the AI-layoff story driving the headlines applies to roughly 20% of US workers. The 80% figure traces to BLS payroll data on hyperscaler vs. non-hyperscaler employment. The panic, in other words, is real for the people writing the panic and largely fictional for the people reading it.