GET ME REWRITE: Trump tariffs, trade war, and nativism trash U.S. economy in 2025

 

Headline and graph:  NBC News, 1/9/2026

Steve Kopack and Allie Canal report:

The U.S. economy added just 50,000 jobs in December, capping off the worst year for hiring since 2020, when the Covid pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill. 

Save for 2020, last year ranks as the poorest year for job creation since 2009 and the global financial crisis. 

Just 584,000 jobs were created in 2025, far below the more than 2 million added in each of the prior two years, and the more than 4 million hires in 2022, the height of the post-pandemic recovery.

Last year, the labor market added jobs at an average pace of 48,000 jobs per month, after revisions.

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