Challenger: 2025 layoffs hit 1M, highest since pandemic
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
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| 0:14.9 | There was a consulting firm by the name of Challenger Gray and Christmas. |
| 0:20.9 | They reported on Thursday, yeah, can you imagine if your last name was Christmas? |
| 0:24.9 | It would be a holiday every day. |
| 0:26.5 | But they announced that there were 1.1 million job layoffs announced this year, and it has been the most since 2020 during the pandemic. |
| 0:37.1 | Well, this is one of the things that the Republicans don't want to admit. |
| 0:42.0 | And look, it's not all the Republicans' fault. |
| 0:43.9 | They just happen to be in charge right now. |
| 0:45.4 | But this country, I mean, this country has just been so abhorrent in how we, I mean, look, |
| 0:52.9 | it was bad before COVID, but the way we've handled economic policy |
| 0:56.6 | in this country with the money printing with the now the tariffs with the supply chain disruptions |
| 1:01.2 | you can't do all of these things and not think it's going to have some sort of profound impact on |
| 1:07.2 | the economy you could mask it for so long the way they did during COVID where they just |
| 1:12.0 | threw a bunch of money at people and we're like, oh, see, no problem whatsoever. I mean, you think |
| 1:16.2 | about when you say it out loud, do you think you could realistically shut a society down for six |
| 1:21.4 | months a year and then once society, quote unquote, opens back up, it's some slow rollout |
| 1:26.6 | and shut down ports and the |
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