President Donald Trump promised voters in 2024 that if they returned him to the White House, his policies would deliver a blue-collar jobs boom.

The United States gained a decent 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October as federal workers departed after cutbacks by the Trump administration, the government said in delayed reports.

The next U.S. jobs report will land at a moment when the labor market, the White House and the Federal Reserve are all under pressure to prove their stories still add up. President Donald Trump is poised to claim vindication if headline hiring looks strong,

Economists also note that the report showed that wages are growing at the lowest rate in years. Although Americans’ earnings are still outpacing inflation, average hourly earnings grew at an annual rate of 3.5% in November, whereas inflation grew at a 3% rate in September, marking the slowest pace since 2021.

The Trump administration highlighted private sector job growth in the latest employment report, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying President Trump is creating “a strong, America First economy in record time.

The growing ubiquity of artificial intelligence remains a divisive topic among the public, but the White House is fully leaning into the AI boom. President Donald Trump has announced the creation of a new AI-based ‘United States Tech Force’ that will seek to poach employees from the private sector to lure them to government jobs.

President Donald Trump has ordered a blockade of Venezuela, targeting sanctioned oil tankers in an escalation of his administration’s pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Trump,

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire nominated twice to lead the agency, may draw some lessons from the tenure of another NASA leader in the 1990s.