80,000 new jobs were created last month. But 4 million people graduated from college already this year.

Photo Above - ICE agents keeping us safe from migrant nannies. If she's detained, does this count as a new job opening?

80,000 new jobs created, just after high school and college graduation? That doesn’t sound like enough. An annualized job growth of less than 1 million a year. One quarter of the 4 million people who received college degrees so far in 2025. (See links below)

It’s impossible to determine how many new jobs actually HAVE been created in 2025 so far. The department of labor statistics keeps changing the numbers. Suffice it to say, none of the narratives served up so far even come close to 2 million new jobs.

Of course, only 62% of kids who enroll in college actually graduate. The other 40% drop out, quickly default on their student loans, and then are baited on election day by promises of student loan forgiveness.

Being a barista is a job any high school graduate could do. Like telemarketing, debt collection, Amazon picking, Uber. Those jobs are now going to college graduates. Because a college diploma proves that you at least had the tenacity to persist at college for 4, 5, or 6 years after public high school graduation.

Don’t laugh – the “tenacity” angle is EXACTLY what corporate HR offices focus on. They mostly actually don’t care what your college degree is in, if they’re hiring for a typical entry level position. If you have the sheepskin, you make it past round one.

Back to the 80,000 new August jobs. I don’t have confidence in this number. It could be half as many, or twice as many, based on the kind of revisions we’ve seen over the past several months. And when we get to October, November, and December it will just get worse. “Holiday Hiring”. Everyone is told that if you hustle and work all the overtime demanded, you’ll likely be kept on after January 1st.

Because people will believe anything. Even Amazon pickers and the thousands of guys who signed on as temporary/probationary ICE roundup agents. They all believe – to a man – that their jobs will be made permanent. Which is why they’re working overtime to chase down nannies, lawn crews, and Home Depot day labor. The government has given them a quota, and keeps track on how well they meet it. Why would you chase after a Tren de Aragua cartel soldier, tatted and armed, when you could safely take down a nanny and then stop at Starbucks for a latte afterwards to celebrate?

The government also claims that 1.6 million migrants were deported this year. Do you believe that? Or that illegal border crossings are down 92%. About the only statistic I potentially WOULD believe is that no detainees were actually eaten by ‘gators at Alligator Alcatraz yet.

Trump didn’t create the job crisis, and so far he isn’t fixing it. People began dropping out of the workforce permanently during the pandemic. They’re no longer counted as unemployed if they don’t file with their state unemployment offices. Able bodied adults who don’t see the point. And with so few new jobs – mostly as baristas and pickers – can you blame them?

I’m just sayin’ . ..



US employers likely added a modest 80,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market has cooled

30+ US College Graduation Statistics for 2025