Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. And I'm Amna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, the latest jobs

numbers show the economy growing at the slowest pace since the pandemic, and certain groups are

taking the hardest hits. It's a phrase that we've heard since I can remember last hire, first fired, and it's a phrase known too well by black and brown people.

New video emerges of the fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, while fear and tensions ripple through the community.

And the Iranian government threatens a further crackdown on growing protests, despite

President Trump's threat to intervene. Welcome to the NewsHour.

The U.S. economy added a modest 50,000 jobs last month that was below expectations and capped the weakest year for job growth since the pandemic.

Employers added a total of 584,000 jobs in the U.S. for all of 2025, a big drop from the 2 million created in

2024. Layoffs still remain low, hiring is still steady, and the unemployment rate ticked down to

4.4%. Today, President Trump said it was an amazing report showing the strength of private hiring

and said any overall

weakness was due to the government shutdown this past fall. But as economics correspondent, Paul

Salman reports, it all points to a soft job market that's adding 100,000 fewer jobs a month compared

to 2024.

2025 over. Headline for the job market?

Job market's weak. The job market's not creating very many jobs at all.

Economist Mark Zandi. He says if you look back to the start of President Trump's tariff regime,

what the president called Liberation Day, the economy has not been able to create any jobs.

And the job growth we are getting very narrowly concentrated in the health care sector,

a bit in leisure hospitality, but outside of that, we're seeing job loss and no job creation.

In fact, just about all the new jobs created last month were in health care,

social assistance, and leisure and hospitality. No change or losses pretty much everywhere else.

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