While December's figures were decent, job growth has slowed significantly over the past year while the unemployment rate crept up towards its highest level since 2021. "We're in a new normal, in a new equilibrium," said Sweet, adding that this is roughly the level of job growth one should expect going forward. But "job growth in 2025 was the weakest in over a decade, outside of the pandemic," Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, said in a statement. The sluggish job growth figure was underpinned by a mere 37,000 increase in private payrolls, he said. Accordingly, we look for only a small pick-up in employment growth ahead," Tombs said.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha January 10, 2026 14:55 UTC