On paper, the job market looks pretty darn good. The 4.3% unemployment rate is below both the 10-year average of 4.6% and the 50-year average of 6.1%. For the second month in a row, the official government tally of jobs added blew past economists’ expectations.

The job market in 2026 is frozen: Employers have been slow to hire, and people with jobs are staying put. It’s taking longer to find jobs than it did in previous years; a quarter of unemployed Americans have been looking for six months or more, and the American work force is shrinking.

Slow hiring, a shrinking labor force and other factors are contributing to negativity among the nation's workers.

M vs. 6.833M consensus and 6.887M prior, according to data releases by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday.

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