🚨 Decoding the February jobs report: Why the US lost 92,000 jobs, 🧐
Yahoo Finance·2026-03-06 21:40
The US lost 92,000 jobs in the month of February and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%. So what's driving the surprise loss. Healthcare shed about 28,000 jobs and that's largely because of the strike activity we saw across the US.Information jobs fell by 11,000 and this is part of a larger trend that we've been hearing about AI related layoffs and the impact of AI from companies like Block and Amazon. Federal government employment dropped by about 10,000 jobs last month and it's now down 330,000 jobs ...