S14 EP42: Hour 1 - Jobs and Job Losses and Spin
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 876 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How would you like a 15% discount to my daily email, the stack of stuff, the show notes, |
| 0:05.4 | discounts to the conference, all of that. |
| 0:07.2 | All you need to do is text the word show to 33777. |
| 0:11.5 | You'll get the annual subscription with a 15% discount to my daily email. |
| 0:16.8 | You'll get the stack of stuff, the links to the show notes, discounts to the conference, |
| 0:20.3 | and so much more. All you have to do is text the word show,, the links to the show notes, discounts to the conference, and so much more. |
| 0:21.6 | All you have to do is text the word show, S-H-O-W, to 33-777-7. |
| 0:27.4 | Text show to 33-777-7. |
| 0:42.5 | Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our One. |
| 0:47.3 | Greetings, conversationalists. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson here across America. The phone number 877973-725. If you want to be on the program, if you text Eric E--I-C-K to 33777, you can get the podcast, the live stream, the show notes, all the social media links as I'm traveling out and about. |
| 1:05.1 | If you also click the first link, you can get the show notes, and the show notes impossible or necessary to get today |
| 1:11.9 | because there's a lot of data out there about the economic news and how impossible it is for |
| 1:17.9 | Republicans, I think, to get a fair hearing in the press when it comes to this. Here's the headline. |
| 1:24.6 | This is from CNBC. Layoff announcements soar to the highest since 2020, edge Doge slashes federal staff. |
| 1:33.9 | President Donald Trump's efforts to pare down the federal government workforce left a mark on the labor market in February with announced job cuts at their highest level in nearly five years, |
| 1:45.7 | out placement firm Challenger Gray and Christmas reported Thursday. |
| 1:49.9 | The firm reported that U.S. employers announced 172,017 layoffs for the month up 245% from January |
| 1:58.4 | and the highest monthly count since July 2020 during the heightened uncertainty |
| 2:03.1 | from the COVID pandemic. In addition, it marked to the highest total for the month of February |
| 2:07.4 | since 2009 during the global financial crisis. More than one third of the total came from |
| 2:13.5 | billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's efforts with Trump's blessing to reduce the federal |
| 2:19.1 | workforce. Challenger put the total, announced federal job cuts at 62,242 spanning 17 agencies. |
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