– Private payrolls up 172,000 – Wages up 5% annualized – U6 Jobless down 600,000 – Unemployment rate back down to 4.3% – Smallest federal workforce since 1966
The “experts” were wrong again with a blockbuster jobs report that beat every metric.
– Private payrolls up 172,000
– Wages up 5% annualized
– U6 Jobless down 600,000
– Unemployment rate back down to 4.3%
– Smallest federal workforce since 1966 pic.twitter.com/GLTZ7RDvJc— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) February 16, 2026
Trump is staying the course. No more giant numbers from government hiring which makes us poor as they have to leeching off of our tax dollars – now private payrolls are expanding. Trump was right yet again




