U.S. jobs growth was much slower than previously reported, according to revised data released on Tuesday.
The number of jobs created in the United States from April 2024 to March 2025 was revised down by 911,000 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That would roughly amount to 76,000 fewer jobs created each month of the year up until March.
The updated data highlights concerns about the declining strength of the U.S. job market, which has seen an average increase of merely 29,000 positions over the last three months.
The August jobs report showed that the U.S. added only 22,000 jobs that month and also revised June’s job growth down to a loss of 13,000 jobs.
This information has prompted many economists and policymakers to believe the U.S. labor market has become stagnant. “The employment growth that has been crucial to the unexpected resilience of the U.S. economy over the past four years is now faltering,” Sarah House, a senior economist at Wells Fargo, mentioned in a statement on Friday.
The current administration’s immigration strategies are also thought to be a factor in this slowdown. On Friday, Morgan Stanley analysts suggested that the cooling effect of new immigration policies has contributed to the deceleration in labor force growth.
The manufacturing industry alone has seen a reduction of 78,000 positions over the past year, according to the BLS on Friday, despite significant efforts by the Trump administration to revitalize the sector.
Data released on Tuesday may provide additional evidence for the Federal Reserve, which is anticipated to reduce interest rates at the upcoming Federal Open Market Committee Meeting next week.
Revisions to BLS data are a normal part of the process. The annual statistics are revised every year with additional data that the Bureau collects.
However, these statistics are released as the Bureau of Labor Statistics is under significant pressure from President Donald Trump and his team. Trump replaced the former BLS chief shortly after a disappointing jobs report in August, quickly appointing E.J. Antoni, a conservative economist, as the new leader of the agency.
Antoni has been highly complimentary of controversial Trump administration policies in his writings for the Heritage Foundation and even once proposed suspending the monthly jobs reports before backing off of that idea.
Trump has said the data produced by the BLS was falsified without producing any evidence of his claim. Trump also said the weak numbers were manufactured “to make the Republicans, and me, look bad.”
