The government has dramatically lowered its estimates for how many jobs the economy generated over the past two years

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 10:24 PM

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The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs last month, but significant revisions revealed that job creation in 2024 and 2025 was much lower than previously estimated, with the number of jobs created last year revised down to 181,000.

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