U.S. workers are being laid off at levels not seen since the Great Recession in 2009, all thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

A new report from Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, an international firm that helps laid-off workers find new jobs, said that job losses spiked a whopping 245 percent to 172,017 last month, higher than any month since the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic in July 2020, and the highest in any February since 2009.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    But since the government has stopped paying bills for stuff it doesn’t like, many of those layoffs in the private sector are probably due to DOGE, too …

    • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
      5·
      2 days ago

      Yes, exactly. I think the statement is stronger said with the 100% increase in layoffs, 250% including doge.

      Said the other way as devil’s advocate, it is easier to divert the focus, saying that the numbers are just a spike from government efficiency. Lazy government workers shouldn’t have been leeching off the government in the first place. It will even out in a couple months. (I don’t believe this)